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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Published On: 24th June 2003
Aged 21, he came from Washington in Tyne and Wear, and was engaged to be married. Si Miller joined the Army in January 2000 and was posted to 156 Provost Company after passing the RMP junior non-commissioned officers course at Chichester. A qualified radio operator, he had served with 1 PARA on a deployment to Kenya. His parents, John and Continue Reading
Published On: 24th June 2003
Aged 20, he came from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala in Wales, and was single. He joined the Army in August 1998, initially serving with 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. He transferred to the RMP and joined 156 Provost Company in January 2002. He had served on operations in Sierra Leone and Northern Ireland and deployed to Jamaica on exercise. A popular Continue Reading
Published On: 24th June 2003
Aged 24, he came from Colchester in Essex. Born in Portsmouth, Paul Long attended Blackmoor CofE Primary School and All Hallows RC Comprehensive in Aldershot, before moving to South Shields where he attended Hebburn College. He joined the Regular Army in April 1999, having served two years with the Territorial Army, and was posted to 156 Provost Company in March 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