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26 August 1972 - Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston (32) and Private James Eames (33), both members of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote controlled bomb, hidden in an abandoned car and detonated when their patrol approached at Cherrymount, on the outskirts of Enniskillen.
On 23 October 1972 at around 4:20 p.m., two soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Sgt. Stanley Hathaway and Cpl. John Byrne, attacked farmer and civil rights activist Michael Naan (31) and laborer Andrew Joseph Murray (24) with a Bowie knife, while they were lifting hay off a trailer at Naan’s farm in Aughnahinch, County Fermanagh.
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24 October 1972 – Michael Naan (31) and Andrew Murray (24), Catholic civilians, were found stabbed to death at the Naan family farm at Aughnahinch, on the southern outskirts of Newtownbutler. They were murdered by members of a patrol from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on suspicion that they were IRA members.
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The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) [1] [2] took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial ( cenotaph ) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to ...
18 May: two off-duty British soldiers (Thomas Agar and Robert Huggins) were killed, and another (Peter Gallimore) died 11 days later as a result of his injuries, after the IRA planted a booby trap bomb under their car, outside the Lakeland Forum Leisure Centre, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
Gordon Wilson (25 September 1927 – 27 June 1995) was a draper in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, who became known internationally as a peace campaigner during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 8 November 1987 a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded during Enniskillen's Remembrance Day parade, injuring Wilson and fatally injuring his ...