Name | ABBOT, Anthony Brian |
Rank: | Gunner |
Service No: | 24348506 |
Regiment: | Royal Artillery |
Date: | 24 October 1976 |
Age: | 20 |
Details: | one of two soldiers shot in an IRA ambush whilst out on a joint police-army patrol in Ardoyne, North Belfast. |
Family Details: | Born 3 June 1956. |
Buried: | Bury Cemetery, St Peters Road, Redvales, Lancashire |
Grave Reference: | Section 6, Row A, Grave 308 |
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Name | ABERCROMBIE, Aubrey Alexander |
Rank: | Corporal |
Service No: | 24205868 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 5 February 1980 |
Age: | 47 |
Details: | shot by the IRA whilst working on his farm. Afterwards security forces mounted a major security operation in the area because they suspected the site might be booby-trapped. |
Family Details: | Born 8 April 1932. |
Buried: | Druminiskill Churchyard |
Grave Reference: | Section 1, Grave 4 |
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Name | ADAMS, Michael David |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24684076 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 9 April 1990 |
Age: | 23 |
Details: | one of four UDR soldiers killed by 1,000lb IRA landmine outside Downpatrick. They were travelling from Ballykinler Army Barracks towards the town on the Ballydoughan Road when the device was detonated under their Land Rover. This was the UDR’s largest single loss of life since July 1983. |
Family Details: | Born 25 December 1966. |
Buried: | Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Grave Reference: | Grave T1735 |
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Name | ADAMS, Stanley Desmond |
Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Service No: | 24244436 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 28 October 1976 |
Age: | 29 |
Details: | shot by the IRA as he delivered post to a remote farmhouse near Pomeroy — the IRA had posted the letter to the address in preparation for the ambush. |
Family Details: | Born 14 April 1947. |
Buried: | Pomeroy Presbyterian Church Graveyard, Pomeroy, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone |
Grave Reference: | In family grave |
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Name | ADAM, Terence Michael |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24555465 |
Regiment: | Army Catering Corps |
Date: | 6 December 1982 |
Age: | 20 |
Details: | one of 11 soldiers who died as a result of an INLA bomb attack on the Droppin’ Well public house in Ballykelly. Six civilians also died, one of the highest death tolls of the Troubles. |
Family Details: | Born 30 December 1961. |
Buried: | Hither Green Cemetery, Verdaint Lane, Catford, Lonbdon, SE6 1TP |
Grave Reference: | Section HZ Grave 650 |
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Name | AGAR, Thomas Henry |
Rank: | Corporal |
Service No: | 24402310 |
Regiment: | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
Date: | 18 May 1984 |
Age: | 35 |
Details: | one of two off-duty soldiers killed by an IRA bomb left under their ear near an Enniskillen leisure centre in Fermanagh. |
Family Details: | Born 5 February 1949. |
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Name | AIKMAN, John |
Rank: | Corporal |
Service No: | 24038450 |
Regiment: | Royal Corps of Signals |
Date: | 6 November 1973 |
Age: | 25 |
Details: | killed by IRA gunmen while on security duty outside the court house in Newtownhamilton, Armagh. He was hit twice in the chest as he walked across the town square. |
Family Details: | Born 18 March 1948. |
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Name | ALEXANDER, Ronald (Ronnie) Roulston |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24612128 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 13 July 1983 |
Age: | 19 |
Details: | one of four UDR men killed when a bomb exploded beneath their Land Rover at Drumquin, Co. Tyrone, as they travelled to a training exercise. The incident was the single largest loss of life suffered by the regiment since its creation. |
Family Details: | Born 21 February 1964. |
Buried: | Cappagh Cemetery |
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Name | ALLAN, Lennard David |
Rank: | Marine |
Service No: | RM29279 |
Regiment: | 40 Commando, Royal Marines |
Date: | 26 July 1972 |
Age: | 22 |
Details: | killed by an IRA sniper at Unity Place in West Belfast as his patrol waited for an Orange March to pass. |
Family Details: | Born 28 May 1950. |
Buried: | Newcastle Crematorium, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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Name | ALLEN, Brian |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24304445 |
Regiment: | Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment |
Date: | 6 November 1974 |
Age: | 20 |
Details: | killed in an IRA ambush in the centre of Crossmaglen. |
Family Details: | Born 9 January 1954. |
Buried: | Mark Eaton Crematorium, Derby |
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Name | AMOS, Miles Daniel |
Rank: | Gunner |
Service No: | 24788012 |
Regiment: | Royal Artillery |
Date: | 8 March 1989 |
Age: | 18 |
Details: | one of two soldiers killed when an IRA landmine exploded beneath their Land Rover whilst Out on patrol near the Donegal border checkpoint in Londonderry. |
Family Details: | Born 19 June 1970. |
Buried: | Tidworth Military Cemetery |
Grave Reference: | Section H, Grave 154 |
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Name | ANDERSON, Anthony (Tony) |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24400761 |
Regiment: | Royal Anglian Regiment |
Date: | 24 May 1982 |
Age: | 22 |
Details: | crushed to death under an armoured vehicle during rioting near Butcher Gate in Londonderry. He was rolling on the ground when youths threw petrol bombs into the carrier. |
Family Details: | Born 9 March 1960. |
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Name | ANDERSON, Ivan Robert King |
Rank: | Captain |
Service No: | 492889 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 21 May 1987 |
Age: | 47 |
Details: | ambushed by the IRA near his home at Tyrooney, Sixmilecross in Co. Tyrone as he was driving back from Sixmilecross Primary School where he was headmaster. He was chairman of the local branch of the Ulster Unionist Party. |
Family Details: | Born 26 August 1939. |
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Name | ANDERSON, Stephen |
Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Service No: | 24562219 |
Regiment: | Staffordshire Regiment |
Date: | 29 May 1984 |
Age: | 23 |
Details: | killed in an IRA landmine explosion near Crossmaglen in South Armagh. He was part of a joint Army-RUC patrol at Mounthill on the Dundalk road when the device exploded. |
Family Details: | Born 8 August 1961. |
Buried: | Stafford Crematorium |
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Name | ANDREWS, Nicholas John |
Rank: | Corporal |
Service No: | 24312985 |
Regiment: | 2 Parachute Regiment |
Date: | 27 August 1979 |
Age: | 24 |
Details: | killed at Warrenpoint descrlbed by the Paras as their worst post war disaster. In a carefully organised attack the IRA first blew up a parked trailer on a dual carriageway running parallel with Carlingford Lough as an Army convoy passed. Six were killed in the initial blast. But the IRA had anticipated where the soldiers would set up their command centre after the blast behind a nearby wall and had concealed another 800lb device there. The second explosion half an hour after the first, killed twelve more soldiers. |
Family Details: | Born 6 December 1955. |
Buried: | Bromyard Cemetery |
Grave Reference: | Section E, Grave 56 |
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Name | ARMSTRONG, Frederick Charles aka Charlie |
Rank: | Major |
Service No: | 489402 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 14 November 1983 |
Age: | 54 |
Details: | killed when an IRA bomb exploded under his car just as he left a meeting at the Armagh district council HQin the Palace Demesne in Armagh City. Afrer the death Gerry Adams said killing UDR members was perfectly legitimate in a state of war. |
Family Details: | Born 23 August 1929. |
Buried: | St Mark's Churchyard, Victoria Street, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland |
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Name | ARMSTRONG, Ian Henry |
Rank: | Corporal |
Service No: | 23644543 |
Regiment: | 14th/20th King’s Hussars |
Date: | 29 August 1971 |
Age: | 32 |
Details: | killed in an IRA ambush after he and some fellow soldiers had inadvertently crossed the border by about 100yds into the Irish Republic. There they had met with hostile crowds and had just managed to get back across the border when they were ambushed by the IRA as they stopped to change a damaged tyre. |
Family Details: | Born 5 September 1938. |
Buried: | Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Hampshire |
Grave Reference: | Section F, Grave 140 |
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Name | ARMSTRONG, Thomas John akia Tommy |
Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Service No: | 24205691 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 13 April 1979 |
Age: | 64 |
Details: | shot by the IRA as he drove along Corr Road, Tynam, in Armagh. He died on Good Friday and his funeral was on Easter Sunday — he had been due to retire from the UDR one week later. |
Family Details: | Born 5 June 1915. |
Buried: | Lislooney Presbyterian Churchyard, Tynan, Co Armagh, Northern ireland |
Grave Reference: | Grave 18 |
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Name | ARMSTRONG, Timothy David |
Rank: | Captain |
Service No: | 509849 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 16 January 1988 |
Age: | 29 |
Details: | shot from behind by the UDA/UFF as he walked along the Ormeau Road in South Belfast with his fiancée. Reliable loyalist sources said he had been killed by gunmen who believed him to be a Catholic. |
Family Details: | Born 30 September 1958. |
Buried: | Tandragee Cemetery, Tandragee, Co Armagh |
Grave Reference: | In family grave |
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Name | ARRELL, John |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24275943 |
Regiment: | Ulster Defence Regiment |
Date: | 22 January 1976 |
Age: | 32 |
Details: | ambushed and shot by the IRA while driving a mini-bus at Clady near Portglenone. |
Family Details: | Born 18 August 1943. |
Buried: | Bellaghy Presbyterian Church, Bellaghy, Co Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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Name | ASHFORD, Mark Anthony |
Rank: | Gunner |
Service No: | 24338967 |
Regiment: | Royal Artillery |
Date: | 17 January 1976 |
Age: | 19 |
Details: | shot on duty at a security checkpoint in Derry. |
Family Details: | Born 11 January 1957. |
Buried: | Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London |
Grave Reference: | Section 229D, Row P5, Grave 59696 |
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Name | ASPINWALL, Anthony Reginald |
Rank: | Private |
Service No: | 24203302 |
Regiment: | Gloucestershire Regiment |
Date: | 17 December 1971 |
Age: | 22 |
Details: | died after being fatally injured on the previous night in an ambush. He was shot by an IRA sniper as his patrol moved through the Alma Street and Ragland Street area. |
Family Details: | Born 9 May 1949. |
Buried: | Tidworth Military Cemetery, Hampshire. |
Grave Reference: | Section H, Grave 72 |
Memorial 1: | Bath City |
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Name | AYRTON, Alan David |
Rank: | Gunner |
Service No: | 24378274 |
Regiment: | Royal Artillery |
Date: | 16 December 1979 |
Age: | 21 |
Details: | one of four soldiers killed when a large IRA landmine exploded underneath their Land Rover as they travelled along the Ballygawley Road in Tyrone as part of a two vehicle mobile patrol. |
Family Details: | Born 11 May 1958. |
Buried: | Acrington Cemetery, Accrington, Lancashire |
Grave Reference: | Section ET, Grave 13 |
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Name | BAGSHAW, Michael E |
Rank: | Rifleman |
Regiment: | Royal Green Jackets |
Date: | 19 May 1981 |
Age: | 24 |
Details: | one of four Royal Green Jackets killed by a massive IRA landmine outside of Camlough, South Armagh as their patrol vehicle travelled along Chancellor’s Road. |
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Name | BAGSHAW, Steven |
Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Regiment: | Cheshire Regiment |
Date: | 6 December 1982 |
Age: | 21 |
Details: | one of 11 soldiers who died as a result of an INLA bomb attack on the Droppin’ Well public house in Ballykelly. Six civilians also died, one of the highest death tolls of the troubles. |
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