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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Two soldiers were killed in the attack: Private James Houston (22) from England and Lance-Corporal Michael Patterson (21) from Scotland. [6] Corporal Whitelaw was badly wounded by shrapnel [10] [7] and later airlifted for treatment. [1] Another soldier suffered minor injuries. [11]
Bryan James Budd, VC (16 July 1977 – 20 August 2006) was a British Army soldier and a Northern Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.