6th
January.
3 members of the
patrol were murdered when the IRA triggered a ton of explosives
at Burren Bridge on the Rathfriland to Castlewellan road, four
other members of the patrol were also injured in the attack.
The device was denoted by a 250 yard
command wire and left a crater 13 feet deep and 30 feet wide.
Private
Colin Quinn.
Shot by the INLA
while he left a printing firm in Fox Street, Belfast by two gunmen
who fired about 10 rounds at him.
Harry Kirkpatrick a supergrass was
jailed for 5 life sentences for this and 4 other murders.
Roll
of Honour for ex members of the Regiment.
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Read
the story by the sister of Private Roger Love.
Private Love murdered
in 1991 & this article tells you how his sister heard the
news
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