🔴31/5/1979, Any lamenting @NHS deficiencies should remember the Thursday that IRA terrorists set ablaze the Dept of Health offices, Malone Road, Belfast & same day took over a Whiterock Road Dentists, to shoot at a soldier, then stealing the @NHS dentist`s car afterwards. #OTD🔴
Sat, 2 pm, 10/6/1944, in the French Limousine village of Oradour-sur-Glane, days after D-day Normandy landings, "Das Reich" division (Der Fuhrer Regiment) murdered 642 villagers. Men were shot in 6 barns & women & children were locked inside the village Church & burned alive #OTD
#Remembered 4/6/1978, Anthony Peter Bennett, 29, married father from Hull, NE England. Off duty L/Cpl soldier in Glosters Regiment, stationed at Ballykelly, Limavady, N Ireland, killed by a car walking on the outside with another man, 1 am, Sunday on Londonderry-Limavady Rd #OTD
#Remembered 4/6/1976, William Herbert Spring, 51, Protestant, of Morning Star Catholic Hostel, Belfast. Some sources say UDA murder. Alcoholic abducted, beaten, head hit & shot x4. Found at Oldpark area. Adams & Kelly in court https://t.co/smpJSEu8ZG. https://t.co/QZjgciJcaX #OTD
#Remembered 4/6/1983, Andrew Ferguson Stinson, 35, married father of 3, Farm contractor/off duty UDR, murdered by INLA bomb on his digger, Boland, Caledon Rd, Dungannon. His son & a man were nearby. "Somebody Andy Stinson looked on as a neighbour helped arrange his murder." #OTD
Cricket spectators; Kate Wright, art student, was shot in her back. Her fiancé, a student from Sligo. Both fathers were clergymen. Murderers cycled to the railings to stop the 2 day Gentlemen v Military match. 2nd lady wounded #OTD
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#Remembered 3/6/1921, Kate Wright, 21, murdered by IRA, O`Connor & McGuiness at a cricket match @tcddublin. Fiancé: "she was moaning." Witness: "The girl was lying on the ground..the crowd who are usually gathered outside the railings..to watch the match had all cleared off" #OTD
#Remembered 3/6/1977, UVF Watton (elected Cllr) & co jailed for terrorism in N. Antrim. Judge: "A nest of terrorists who had been responsible for grave & wicked crimes." Detective told court he believed the entire UVF unit in Coleraine was in the dock #OTD https://t.co/9O882qo48b
#Remembered 3/6/1973 Alfred Acheson, 48, Ewarts Row, Belfast & Sadie McComb, 41, Ballymena St, N Belfast, Both Protestants, shot by UVF terrorists at a female friend`s home (injured) after the murderers burst in, 1 am. The 3 had returned to the house after a club for coffee #OTD
#RememberedToday 2/6/1979, INLA terrorists murdered David Allen Dunne, 36, married father with a daughter severely handicapped, RUCR shot on a sunny day, before 2pm, Ballinahone, Armagh, talking to civilian friend David Stinson, also murdered - 32, married father, a haulier #OTD
#RememberedToday 1/6/1997, Robert (Gregory) Taylor, 41, Protestant, married father of 3; 1 disabled. Off-duty policeman murdered - chased from Kelly`s pub & beaten outside the Candy Store, Ballymoney, by loyalist gang. Brown, Stevenson, Henry, McLaughlin, Wilmont + in Court. #OTD
#Remembered 1/6/1974, attempted murder at Rabbit Island, Newtownbutler, Fermanagh; 3 RUC police travelling to traffic accident- 1 RUC shot/badly injured & vehicle hit x5.
At a derelict farmhouse, Lisnaskea, 300lb milk churn bomb found & blood stains suggested prem. explosion #OTD
#Remembered 2/6/1976, David Spratt, 23, #Protestant factory worker of Ballygowan, mother dead. Shot midnight by #UDA @ his sister`s home, Darragh Rd, Comber. Bin lid thrown into rear living room then shots fired. Believed brother-in-law, Mr Vance intended target #OTD. Long jailed
Sat, 2 pm, 10/6/1944, in the French Limousine village of Oradour-sur-Glane, days after D-day Normandy landings, "Das Reich" division (Der Fuhrer Regiment) murdered 642 villagers. Men were shot in 6 barns & women & children were locked inside the village Church & burned alive #OTD
#Remembered 31/5/1973, Thomas Curry, 50, English sea captain from Preston murdered by UVF terrorists. Shot in their bomb & gun attack at Muldoon`s Bar, near the Docks, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Mr Curry had left the Orwell Fisher ship to post a letter and called at the pub #OTD
#Remembered 31/5/1972, UDR Bernard Adamson, 30, married father of 4 from Yorkshire, living Derrin Rd, Enniskillen, Firearms Instructor fatally shot 17/5/72, during training exercise, Letterbreen, Fermanagh. Died #OTD. Interred local & service in RC Chapel. https://t.co/rnFruBAnpj
#Remembered 30/5/1976, John Ritchie, 31, unmarried. Roman Catholic milkman on rounds with Kennedy Dairies found shot believed by loyalists, in his milk float, off route in Ballymurphy, Belfast, 5:30 am #OTD. He had not any known illegal involvement. No one has admitted their part
#Remembered 29/5/1977 Roland Hill, married pensioner. A Protestant from Chief St, N. Belfast, murdered by UDA terrorists during their robbery - fatally shot 6 days earlier in a meeting at Ewart's Social club, Somerdale Park. Mr Hill died #OTD. White x2, Mulgrew & Potts in court.
"They must have been building bombs in that row of houses & something went wrong" thought John Bradley, Engineer Reg. A woman`s head was blown 100 yds. Morning found 8 dead but only 1, a women lived on the street, leaving 2 children. 4 IRA were IDd by death notices #Belfast#OTD
#OTD 28/5/72 Anderson Street, part nitrobenzine IRA bomb.
Exploded between `2 up - 2 down` & car boot approx 3am.
8 bodies blown to pieces - 4 IRA.
3 year old boy & 7 year old girl injured. Their mother killed.
A girlfriend was blown up.
Explosives traces on male civilian hand.