Landmine Attack on 6 UDR
Event
Wed, 07/13/1983
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| Aftermath of a landmine attack on a Land Rover. |
Four members of the 6th Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment, Private Oswell Neely, Private Thomas Harron, Private Ronald Alexander and Private John Roxborough, were killed by a 600lb landmine at Drumquin in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
They were in the last Land Rover of a five-vehicle convoy en route to Ballykinler from Omagh. The device left a crater 40 feet wide and 15 feet deep. This was the greatest lost of life in a single incident since the raising of the UDR; it remained so until the killing of another four soldiers in 1990.
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