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Updates for Fusilier Robert Trainor
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12/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 4th August 1945:
12/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 4th August 1945:
12/10/2020
12/10/2020 TRAINOR - In loving memory of Fusilier Robert Trainor, who was killed in action in Sicily on 5th August 1943.
12/10/2020 ‘He answered the call of duty
12/10/2020 He gave up his life for the truth
12/10/2020 A true clean-hearted Irish lad
12/10/2020 Ever remembered by his loving sister and brother-in-law, Susan and Len Jones. Drumlamph, Castledawson
12/10/2020
12/10/2020 TRAINOR - In loving memory of Fusilier Robert Trainor, who was killed in Sicily on 5th August 1943.
12/10/2020 ‘We find it hard to realise
12/10/2020 That he is gone forever
12/10/2020 Where our dear brother lies.’
12/10/2020 In the pride of his strength and youth.’
12/10/2020 Ever remembered by his loving sister and brother-in-law, Sadie and Bobbie Moore. Drumlamph, Castledawson
12/10/2020 We often sit and think of him
12/10/2020 Our thoughts are on that lonely grave
12/10/2020 And sleep forsakes our eyes
12/10/2020 ‘At night when all is silent
12/10/2020 TRAINOR - In loving memory of Fusilier Robert Trainor, who was killed in action in Sicily on 5th August 1943.
12/10/2020
12/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 4th August 1945:
12/10/2020 Ever remembered by his loving father, mother and family. Drumlamph, Castledawson.
12/10/2020 When we are all together.’
16/04/2020
16/04/2020 Fusilier Robert Trainor was serving with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died on 5th August 1943.
16/04/2020 The attack to cross the River Simeto in Sicily started at 10:30 on the morning of the 5th August. Fusilier Trainor may have been killed during that attack or he may have died of wounds suffered at the battles for Centuripe of the Salso on 3rd and 4th August.
16/04/2020 Fusilier Trainor was initially buried at Grid Reference GR11/CB/106.
16/04/2020 Fusilier Robert Trainor was reinterred in Catania War Cemetery in Sicily on 7th April 1944. His inscription reads: HIS LOVING FACE AND SMILE WITH SADNESS WE RECALL HE ALWAYS HAD A KINDLY WORD AND DIED BELOVED BY ALL
16/04/2020 Fusilier Robert Trainor is commemorated locally on Castledawson War Memorial and on the World War Two Roll of Honour Plaque in Castledawson Memorial Hall.
16/04/2020 The CWGC record Fusilier Robert Trainor as the son of William and Sarah Trainor of Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
16/04/2020 Robert Trainor was the son of William and Sarah Trainor. He was born about 1925.
16/04/2020
16/04/2020 Fusilier Robert Trainor is listed on page 120 of the Castledawson War Dead Book – ‘They Didn’t Come Home.’
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