NIVA Service of Remembrance Saturday 14th September 2024

This years’ service will be held at 11.30am on Saturday 14th September 2024 at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

The service will commemorate and remember all those who lost their lives in service of the Crown as a result of the conflict in N. Ireland.

The chapel service will be followed by a parade down to the Ulster Ash Grove for the laying of wreathes.

Following the laying of the wreathes, there will be a 15-minute pause before...

Northern Ireland Veterans' Association

Service of Remembrance
National Memorial Arboretum
Saturday 9th September 2023






This years’ service will be held at 11.30am on Saturday 9th September 2023 at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

The service will commemorate and remember all those who lost their lives in service of the Crown as a result of the conflict in N. Ireland.

The chapel...

This year's service will be held at the NMA on Saturday 10th September. At present, we won't be aware of restrictions, if any, that the NMA will impose on attendees (pre booking cars, names etc) but as this information is made available to us, we will publish it.

NIVA Service Of Remembrance

The 2021 service will be held at 11.30am on Saturday 11th September 2021 at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.The service will commemorate and remember all those who lost their lives in service of the Crown as a result of the conflict in N. Ireland.The chapel service will be followed by a parade down to the Ulster Ash Grove for the laying of wreathes. ...

Ten members and wives assembled today at the Ulster Ash Grove to represent all our members for the Act of Remembrance. ...

It is our sad duty to inform you that Ken passed away on Thursday 19th March 2020 after a brief struggle with cancer.
A full obituary will be published in the forthcoming Newsletter.

The NIVA Annual Service of Remembrance was booked with the NMA to take place on Saturday 12th September 2020. Since that booking was made, we have been advised that the NMA is closed for the foreseeable future. Alternative arrangements may have to be made. Keep logging in to follow and

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Two self-proclaimed British Government spies have escaped from a top-security prison in Ireland where they were serving sentences for armed robbery.

It is another embarrassment for the authorities at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin coming just five months after a helicopter plucked three leading IRA members from Mountjoy's exercise yard.
The latest escapees, brothers Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn, were jailed last year for a £67,000 robbery at a Dublin bank - the biggest to date in Irish history.
During their trial the Littlejohns claimed they were working for the British Government against the IRA. ...

1989: IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks

Police are hunting two IRA bombers who attacked an army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire.
Fifty members of the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment escaped injury when sentry Lance Corporal Alan Norris spotted two men acting suspiciously in the early hours of this morning.

He raised the alarm and the barracks was evacuated shortly before two bombs went off.The bombers escaped in a stolen car, which was found earlier this evening about 10 miles from the barracks.

Lance Corporal Norris was on patrol duty at about 0300 hours this morning when he spotted the terrorists.
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NIVA Annual Service of Remembrance 2019
This will be held on Saturday 14th September. All are welcome.
Most of you will be aware that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the deployment of Operation Banner.
We embrace this commemoration within our Annual Service of Remembrance and to mark that, we will be laying some 2000 Poppy crosses each bearing the names and unit of each of the Fallen; they will be laid in Regimental lines close to the Ulster Memorial. The sacrifice of those members of the civilian services, Police, Prison Officers, CSU and others, will marked by Poppy crosses laid in their respective unit lines.

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By Gareth Cross - Belfast Telegraph
November 5 2018


A 66-year-old man was arrested in Donegal on Monday on suspicion of the murder of two Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers in 1972.
The Press Association have confirmed that the man arrested was former IRA man John Downey.
He was also arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting an explosion.

Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston, a father of 4, and Private James Eames, a father of 3, died when a device exploded in a car they were checking on the Irvinestown Road, Cherrymount, Enniskillen on August 25, 1972.
Downey was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant as part of a joint operation with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. ...