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NameABBOT, 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
 
NameABERCROMBIE, 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
 
NameADAMS, 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
 
NameADAMS, 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
 
NameADAM, 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
 
NameAGAR, 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.
 
NameAIKMAN, 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.
 
NameALEXANDER, 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
 
NameALLAN, 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
 
NameALLEN, 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
 
NameAMOS, 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
 
NameANDERSON, 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.
 
NameANDERSON, 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.
 
NameANDERSON, 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
 
NameANDREWS, 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
 
NameARMSTRONG, 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
 
NameARMSTRONG, 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
 
NameARMSTRONG, 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
 
NameARMSTRONG, 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
 
NameARRELL, 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
 
NameASHFORD, 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
 
NameASPINWALL, 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
 
NameAYRTON, 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
 
NameBAGSHAW, 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.
 
NameBAGSHAW, 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.
 


This database contains details of British dead from the Northern Ireland conflict between 1971-2000, compiled from details in the Daily Telegraph. Additional information has been added where known, inlcuding photographs. This does not mean that there are not anomalies, that entries have not been duplicate or that the information here is 100% accurate, please let us know if you have facts we have wrong or not available.

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