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This is a list of Irish military personnel of the Defence Forces who have died while serving overseas. Since the 1960s, 88 personnel (87 from the Irish Army and one from the Air Corps ) have died in overseas deployments.
6 April: an UDR soldier was killed when he detonated a booby trap bomb which had been attached to his car by an IRA active service unit in Fermanagh. [244] [255] [256] 7 April: a UDR Major and an RUC officer were injured by gunfire during a large IRA operation in Clogher, County Tyrone. IRA units took control of the town before launching ...
14 September 1971: a British soldier (John Rudman, aged 21) was shot dead while on mobile patrol, Edendork, near Coalisland, County Tyrone. He was the first British soldier killed by the East Tyrone Brigade; 14 March 1972: A two-man IRA unit armed with sub-machine guns ambushed a joint British Army/RUC patrol on Brackaville Road outside Coalisland.
The car had come from a Protestant area and had returned the same way. This, together with the spokesman's statement, implied that loyalists were responsible. [18] An inquest into the attack was held in December 1972, where it was admitted that the car's occupants were soldiers belonging to an undercover unit known as the MRF. [20]
3 August 1972: An IRA volunteer and a British soldier were killed in separate attacks in Belfast and Tyrone. [53] 4 August 1972: A British soldier was killed by an IRA sniper while on foot-patrol in the Andersonstown area of Belfast. [53] 7 August 1972: Four British soldiers were killed in three separate IRA attacks across Northern Ireland. [53]
The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the UVF headquarters.
Northern Irish resident Belfast: 19 July 1998 Provisional Irish Republican Army [78] [79] [80] Eamon Collins [79] Former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army: Doran's Hill, Newry: 27 January 1999 Charles Bennett [80] Irish murder victim. Belfast: 30 July 1999 Matthew Burns [81] Irish murder victim, alleged drug dealer. [82 ...
Wood attempted to drive the car out of the procession but his exit route was blocked by a black taxi. An angry crowd surrounded the car, smashed the windows and attempted to drag the soldiers out. Wood produced a Browning Hi-Power 9mm handgun, [14] which each of the soldiers was armed with. Wood climbed partly out of a window and fired a shot ...