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The soldier killed in the attack was 25-year-old Fusilier Lee James Rigby, (4 July 1987 – 22 May 2013) a drummer and machine-gunner in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester , was born in 1987 and had served in Cyprus, Germany, and Afghanistan before becoming a recruiter and assisting ...
Attacks on soldiers in Britain are rare. In 2013, two men inspired by al-Qaida killed 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, running him down with a car before stabbing him to death ...
Camera footage from a U.S. A-10, as it begins an attack on a British vehicle squadron, March 2003. This is a list of friendly fire incidents by the U.S. Military on allied British personnel and civilians. Korean War 23 September 1950: During the "Battle of Hill 282", three United States Air Force P-51 Mustang aircraft attacked a position held by the British Army's 1st Battalion, Argyll and ...
10 October - Chelsea Barracks bombing - Two civilians are killed and over 20 British soldiers are injured in an IRA bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. 17 October - Lieutenant-general Sir Steuart Pringle was injured in an explosion at his home in Dulwich, London by a car bomb planted by the IRA. Sir Pringle lost a leg in the bombing. [121]
A British policeman was also killed in an ambush. June 4 – Eight Lehi letter bombs addressed to high British government officials, including Prime Minister Clement Attlee, were discovered in London. [citation needed] A British soldier was killed in Haifa. [17] June 28 – Lehi fighters opened fire on a line of British soldiers waiting in line ...
The Provisional IRA (IRA) planted a bomb underneath a minibus at an army recruiting centre in Wembley, northwest London on 16 May 1990, killing a soldier and injuring four others. The dead victim was the van's driver, 34-year-old Sergeant Charles Chapman from the Queen's Regiment , a father of two.
British soldiers, shot by mistake. They had been driving civilian vehicles when they were shot by Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers, who believed the soldiers were paramilitaries. [166] Michael Connors; John Mahon; 1 March 1972 Belfast, Northern Ireland Irish Travellers, shot during a police chase while in a stolen van. [167] Fergal O'Hanlon
A former soldier who allegedly snuck out of a London prison by strapping himself under a food delivery truck has pleaded not guilty to escaping custody. Daniel Khalife, 21, appeared at London's ...