The Troubles in Cullyhanna recounts incidents during, and the effects of, the Troubles in Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Timeline of deadly incidents in Cullyhanna during the Troubles:
1972
edit- 10 February 1972 - Ian Harris (26) and David Champ (23), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army landmine attack on their mobile patrol at Cullyhanna.[1]
- 20 November 1972 - William Watson (28) and James Strothers (31), both members of the British Army, were killed by a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb in a derelict house in Cullyhanna.[1]
1988
edit- 28 July 1988 - Michael Matthews (37), member of the British Army, was killed by the explosion of a landmine planted by the Provisional IRA while on a joint RUC/Army foot patrol outside Cullyhanna[2]
1990
edit- 7 May 1990 - Graham Stewart (25), member of the British Army, was killed by machine gun fire from a Provisional IRA unit during Operation Conservation.[3]
- 30 December 1990 - Fergal Caraher (20), Provisional IRA volunteer and member of Sinn Féin, shot and killed by Royal Marines while travelling in his car in Tullynavall Road, Cullyhanna.[3]
1991
edit- 17 August 1991 - Simon Ware (22), member of the British Army, killed by the explosion of a landmine planted by the Provisional IRA while on foot patrol at Carrickrovaddy, near Cullyhanna.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Sutton Index of Deaths, 1972". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ "CAIN - Sutton database of deaths - 1988".
- ^ a b CAIN - Sutton database of deaths - 1990
- ^ CAIN - Sutton database of deaths - 1991