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Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards. [1] [2] He was abducted by Republicans from a pub in Dromintee, South Armagh, during an undercover operation he was undertaking and killed by the IRA.
The Coagh ambush was a military confrontation that took place in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on 3 June 1991, during The Troubles, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit from its East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) at the village of Coagh, in County Tyrone, whilst on its way to kill a part-time member of the Ulster ...
Belfast, 1978, ambush of three IRA members, one civilian also killed [14] Dunloy, 1978, ambush of teenage civilian mistaken for IRA member. [15] M60 gang, 1980, eight IRA members arrested, SAS Captain Herbert Westmacott killed. [16] Kesh ambush, 1984, ambush of four IRA members, two IRA members and one SAS soldier killed. Strabane ambush, 1985 ...
This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA). Michael Asher – author, historian and desert explorer; Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War; Julian Brazier TD – MP for Canterbury; Charles "Nish" Bruce QGM – freefall expert; Charles R. Burton ...
On 2 May 1980 Captain Herbert Westmacott became the highest-ranking member of the SAS to be killed in Northern Ireland. [53] He was in command of an eight-man plain clothes SAS patrol that had been alerted by the Royal Ulster Constabulary that an IRA gun team had taken over a house in Belfast . [ 54 ]
2 May – SAS Captain Herbert Westmacott (28) was killed during a shoot-out in Belfast with an IRA unit nicknamed the 'M60 Gang'. 14 Intelligence Company operators located the M60 Gang in a house on Antrim Road and an SAS squad was sent to engage. Westmacott ordered a three-man team to the rear of the building to cut off any escape (they caught ...
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
However, an obituary appeared in the SAS magazine Mars & Minerva, stating that Slater was a member of 7 Troop (Free Fall) 'B' Squadron of the SAS. [10] [11] [12] Fleming and the remainder of the IRA ASU then came under fire from the SAS unit and retreated. Fleming, unable to swim, became trapped between the SAS unit and the swollen River ...