Photograph of the entrance to the RAF and WAAF Information Bureau in Belfast. Over 9,000 Eire citizens travelled to Belfast to join the RAF and would most likely have called at this office for information. 1943.

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Photograph of the entrance to the RAF and WAAF Information Bureau in Belfast. Over 9,000 Eire citizens travelled to Belfast to join the RAF and they most likely would have called at this office. Photo c.1943. © PRONI Reference: CAB/3/G/18/10
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Recruitment into the Armed Forces

Over 38,000 men and women from Northern Ireland enlisted throughout the course of the war were represented in every area of battle.

Of those who served, many gained individual recognition for their outstanding efforts, including James Magennis, who joined the Royal Navy aged sixteen and went on to receive the Victoria Cross for successfully carrying out the difficult and dangerous mission of attaching the limpet mines which later blew up the Japanese Cruiser Takao in Borneo.