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On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
At Brady's funeral, two plain clothed, off-duty, British Army corporals were cornered by an angry crowd who assumed they were under attack and the IRA killed both of them. In May, the UVF killed 3 Catholic civilians and injured 9 in a gun attack in a Belfast pub. [ 4 ]
16 March - Milltown Cemetery attack: Three men are killed and 70 are wounded in a gun and grenade attack by loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone on mourners at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast during the funerals of the three IRA members killed in Gibraltar. 19 March - Corporals killings in Belfast: British Army corporals Woods and Howes are ...
Three people were killed and more than 60 wounded. The "unprecedented, one-man attack" [2] was filmed by television news crews and caused shock around the world. [3] Three days later, two British Army corporals drove into the funeral procession of one of the Milltown victims.
Andrew Walker (1953/1954 – 3 September 2021) [1] was a British Army corporal in the Royal Scots who murdered three colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985.
He died at the age of 27 while serving as a corporal with the 1st Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI). [9] His death was reported in The Times on 1 January 1940 under the headline 'First British Soldier Killed in Action'. [2] Priday's younger brother Archibald served with the same battalion. [2] His family reside in ...
The IRA expressed regret for the death and stated she had been shot "in the belief that she was a member of the British army garrison at Dortmund". [11] [12] On 28 October 1989, IRA members opened fire on the car [6] [13] of RAF corporal Mick Islania. The corporal had just returned to the car from a petrol station snack bar [14] in Wildenrath.
The IRA had stepped up their campaign against British military targets outside Northern Ireland in the late 1980s. In May 1988 they killed members of the RAF in attacks in the Netherlands. [2] On 13 July 1988 nine British soldiers were injured when the IRA detonated two bombs at a British military barracks in Duisburg, Germany.