remembering lisnabreeny

To mark the 70th anniversary of the first American troops arriving in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, Chris Wilson, Chair of the Roe Valley Historical Society, delivers an insightful talk on the experiences of 1st Sgt. Francis (Frank) Miner, who was billeted in Belfast as part of the US Army Graves Registration Service during the war. With the assistance of a Belfast funeral firm (owned by Mr. Wilson’s late uncle), Frank and his colleagues serviced the US Military Cemetery at Lisnabreeny in the Castlereagh hills from 1943 until shortly after D-Day when the small team of five left Northern Ireland to process all Allied and German dead from the Normandy beaches to Berlin; and later the young GIs who were massacred at Malmedy in December 1944.

Free admission, however places must be booked in advance.