Killed in gun battle between undercover British Army members and Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, Dunloy, near Ballymoney, County Antrim.
Sgt Paul Oram
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On This Day
Published On: 23rd April 1984
Private Neil Clarke of the 2nd Battalion, the Queen's Regiment, was with an armoured patrol in Bishop Street in Derry when rioters struck with sweet jar petrol bombs. Clarke jumped out of the back of his Land Rover as his uniform caught fire and IRA sniper Paddy Deery opened fire. Clarke was hit in the head and died instantly. He Continue Reading
Sgt Paul Oram was in fact Sgt Paul Oram MM. Could this be changed please? Thank you.
Roy, can you provide some evidence for this request? I have checked The London Gazette and see no record.
It’s shown on his headstone in St Mary’s Gomersal West Yorkshire….l went to school with Paul
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
LONDON
GAZETTE,
16TH APRIL
1985
SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO
The London Gazette
of Monday, i5th April 1985