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Operation Banner, 1969–1997, deployment of the British army in Northern Ireland, the official SAS deployment from 1976. See also: Timeline of British undercover forces in Operation Banner. Forkhill, 1976, senior IRA member Peter Cleary killed in struggle after capture by SAS. Coagh, 1978.
As they prepared for a second assault, regular security forces converged on the scene; three remaining IRA members pushed the M60 to the ground and 'ran up a white flag' – they were taken into custody unharmed. Westmacott was the most senior SAS man to be killed in action during Operation Banner. [39] [40]
The Coagh ambush was a military confrontation that took place in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on 3 June 1991, during The Troubles, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit from its East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) at the village of Coagh, in County Tyrone, whilst on its way to kill a part-time member of the Ulster ...
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Captain Herbert Richard Westmacott MC (11 January 1952 – 2 May 1980) was a British Army officer who became the first person to be awarded a posthumous Military Cross.As an officer of the Grenadier Guards (2nd Battalion) [1] on extra regimental employment to the Special Air Service (SAS), he died in an encounter with the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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Major General John Taylor Holmes, DSO, OBE, MC (born 22 July 1949) is a retired British Army officer who served as Director Special Forces from 1999 to 2001, which included command of Operation Barras in September 2000.
After this tour he was recommended for the SAS and after passing selection in 1970 he joined "A Squadron" in 1971 as Troop Captain. [ 5 ] Massey served in the Oman and Dhofar on three tours, [ 6 ] before he rejoined the Airborne Forces as Staff Captain of HQ No. 16 Parachute Brigade where he made further tours of Northern Ireland.