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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
3 June: a taxi driver and ex-UDR soldier (Hugh Gallagher) was shot dead by the IRA; his body was found in his car, Faccary Road, Loughmacrory, near Omagh, County Tyrone. [47] 4 June: an off-duty UDR soldier (David Chambers) was shot dead by an IRA sniper at Dollingstown, near Lurgan, County Down, while motorcycling to his workplace.
The funeral of an Irish peacekeeping soldier who was killed in Lebanon has heard “today is the most difficult of days”. A member of the Irish Defence Forces, Private Sean Rooney, from ...
[19] [20] The other two soldiers and two deliverymen were wounded. [21] [22] The soldiers were wearing desert fatigues and were to be deployed to Afghanistan the next day. [15] [23] A few hours later, the stolen car involved was found abandoned near Randalstown, eight miles (13 km) from the barracks. [24]
The Clonoe Ambush was a military action between the British Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that occurred during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.On 16 February 1992, an IRA unit which had attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security base in the village of Coalisland in County Tyrone, was ambushed shortly afterwards by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the grounds ...