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The Troubles in Ballygawley

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The Troubles in Ballygawley recounts incidents during The Troubles in Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Ballygawley during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1975

  • 25 November 1975 - two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near Ballygawley, County Tyrone. [1]

1983

1985

1988

  • 20 August 1988 - Jayson Burfitt (19), Richard Greener (21), Mark Norsworthy (18), Stephen Wilkinson (18), Jason Winter (19), Blair Bishop (19), Alexander Lewis (18) and Peter Bullock (21), all members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their coach at Curr, near Ballygawley.[4] See Ballygawley bus bombing for more detail.

References

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  1. ^ Malcolm Sutton. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1975.html
  2. ^ "Chronological list of deaths, 1983". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Chronological list of deaths, 1985". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Chronological list of deaths, 1988". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 11 August 2010.