Northern Ireland

Died on 04 Mar 91 of injuries he received in an IRA mortar attack on 01 Mar 1991. He was the driver of a landrover hit by a Mark 12 mortar, a type of home made weapon used for the first time. His colleague Private Paul Sutcliffe died in the explosion and three other...

Killed by the IRA using a Mark 12 mortar, a type of home made weapon used for the first time. The missile, a horizontal firing mortar bomb hit the landrover as it moved off from temporary traffic lights. Originally from Lancashire Paul had previous service with The...

Ambushed and shot by the IRA as he drove his cement mixer. Three gunmen threw a grenade at the lorry before firing 30 shots from a field overlooking the road. He was the third employee in the firm he worked for to be killed by the IRA. 183rd UDR soldier to be killed.

Died of wounds sustained when the PIRA detonated a 200 lb command wire bomb, concealed behind hoarding at a building site on Royal Ave, Belfast. Both Pte Starrett and Pte James Cummings, who died at the scene, were on duty at the security gates near the junction with...

Killed in an explosion detonated by command wire. He and a colleague, Pte Frederick Starrett, who died from his wounds, were on duty at the security gate in the city centre at the junction of Royal Ave and North Street. The PIRA had planted a 200 lb bomb behind...

Shot dead by the IRA as he arrived at work in a local factory. One gunman opened fire at close range and then fled with another man in a hijacked car. The pair had taken over a house near the joinery works the previous night and before the shooting had tied up the...

Mr Douglas McElhinney Aged 42. Ex UDR. Shot dead by INLA while outside a friends house in Glenvale Road,Londonderry on the 25th February 1985.