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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 .
Robert Nairac was killed and secretly buried almost 50 years ago. The location of his remains has been a mystery ever since. Search ends for remains of soldier abducted and killed in 1977
14 May 1977 - Robert Nairac (29), undercover British Army officer, was abducted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army outside the Three Step Inn, Dromintee, near Forkhill and presumed killed. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Several men have been imprisoned for his murder.
British Army officer Robert Nairac, who disappeared from South Armagh, was a Mauritius-born Roman Catholic. [7] [8] The organisation said they could only accurately locate the body of one of their victims, but gave rough ideas for the remaining eight. [9] [10] As of September 2017, the remains of three of the victims have still not been found.
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Capt Nairac is believed to have been abducted and killed by the IRA while on an undercover operation in a pub in south Armagh in 1977.
Retired diplomat Alistair Kerr wrote a biography of Nairac entitled Betrayal: the Murder of Robert Nairac published in 2015, which offers documentary evidence that clears Nairac of having been at Buskhill overseeing the attack. According to Kerr, on 31 July 1975 at 4 am Nairac had started out on a road journey from London to Scotland for a ...
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