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1 was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) Another detailed study, Lost Lives, states that the British military killed 301 people during Operation Banner. 160 (~53%) were civilians; 121 (~40%) were republican paramilitaries; 10 (~3%) were loyalist paramilitaries; 8 (~2%) were fellow British military personnel; 2 were RUC officers [41]
On 10 September 1972, an active service unit (ASU) of the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade carried out a landmine attack against a British Army mobile patrol, along a small road in the rural village of Sanaghanroe near the town of Dungannon in County Tyrone. [1]
In a 1978 interview, a former MRF member claimed he had been one of the gunmen. [1] On 1 December 2015 the PSNI listed this shooting as one of nine incidents it was investigating in relation to the activities of the British Army's Military Reaction Force (MRF). [3] In 2020, the High Court ordered the MoD to pay compensation to the widow of John ...
21–26 June 1969: Operation Left Jab in MR 4; 1–15 July 1969: Operation Off Balance, in MR 2; 28 July – 17 October 1969: Operation Junction City Jr., in MR 3; 6 August – 30 September 1969: Kou Kiet, in MR 2; 13 September 1969 – 25 April 1970: Campaign 139, in MR 2; 20 September 1969 – 9 March 1970: Operation Diamond Arrow, in MR 4
The sniper attack on a checkpoint at Newry killed Constable Brian Woods and was officially reported in an IRA South Down Brigade statement, [34] but a high-profile IRA member from Dromintee, identified by Toby Harnden as a South Armagh Brigade volunteer known as "The Surgeon", was identified by the author as the mastermind behind the shooting. [35]
The Warrenpoint ambush, [9] also known as the Narrow Water ambush, [10] the Warrenpoint massacre [11] or the Narrow Water massacre, [12] was a guerrilla attack [13] by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979.
Pages in category "British Army in Operation Banner" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. ... 0–9. 3rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom ...
The Military Reaction Force, Military Reconnaissance Force or Mobile Reconnaissance Force (MRF) [1] was a covert intelligence-gathering and counterinsurgency unit of the British Army active in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The unit was formed during the summer of 1971 [1] and operated until late 1972 or early 1973. MRF teams operated in ...