THE TROUBLES
THOSE WHO DIED
STANLEY CORRY AGED 28 1st November 1971 Mr Corry was one of two plain clothes RUC men who were shot dead in the Andersonstown area in an IRA trap. WILLIAM RUSSELL AGED 31 1st November 1971 As above
at the Henry Taggert army base in West Belfast. FRANK McKEE AGED 58 4th November 1971 Mr McKee died after being attacked and robbed in his bread van in South Armagh. He had been shot but died of a heart attack in an attack which was believed to have been carried out by republicans. CHRISTOPHER QUINN AGED 39 4th November 1971 Shot dead by British soldiers as he stood on vigilante duty at Unity Place in the Unity Flats complex.
Constable Corry
Constable Russell JOHN COCHRAN AGED 67 2nd November 1971 One of three people killed in a bomb blast at the Red Lion public house on the Ormeau Road. The bombers entered the bar, left the bomb and shouted “you have ten seconds to get out.” It exploded seconds later with the building being totally destroyed. MOLLY GEMMELL AGED 55 2nd November 1971 As above WILLIAM JORDAN AGED 31 2nd November 1971 As above STEPHEN McGUIRE AGED 19 4th November 1971 A soldier in the Scots Guards, he was shot and injured by an IRA sniper on the 14th of September while on guard
KATHLEEN THOMPSON AGED 47 6th November 1971 Shot dead by soldiers as she stood in the garden of her home in Rathlin Drive, Derry, during a military raid in the area. PAUL GENGE AGED 18 7th November 1971 A soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals, he was shot dead by the IRA while off duty and taking a walk in Lurgan. A second soldier was wounded in the same attack.
Docks. As he sat in the dentist surgery in the Grosvenor Road a number of gunmen burst in and shot him dead. It is believed that the IRA may have mistaken him for an undercover British soldier. EDWIN CHARNLEY AGED 22 18th November 1971 A soldier in the Black Watch, he was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on guard duty at a bus depot in the Short Strand area of East Belfast. MICHAEL CROSSEY AGED 21 22nd November 1971 A member of the IRA he was killed when a bomb he was planting in a Lurgan bar exploded prematurely. BRIGID CARR AGED 27 23rd November 1971 Shot and injured in an IRA attack in Strabane four days previously. She died in hospital. COLIN DAVIES AGED 39 24th November 1971 A soldier in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps he was killed while trying to defuse an IRA bomb planted in a car showroom in Lurgan.
IAN CURTIS AGED 23 9th November 1971 A soldier in the Royal Anglian Regiment, he was shot dead by an IRA sniper on the bank of the River Foyle in Derry. DERMOT HURLEY AGED 50 11th November 1971 One of two policemen shot dead in an IRA gun attack on the Oldpark Road in North Belfast. THOMAS MOORE AGED 37 11th November 1971 As above W. RENA AGED 18 11th November 1971 A Dutch sailor, he went for dental treatment while his ship was in Belfast
Colin Davies PAUL NICHOLLS AGED 18 27th November 1971 A soldier in the Scots Guards, he was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on patrol in West Belfast.
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JIMMY O’NEILL AGED 45 27th November 1971 Mr O’Neill, a customs officer, was shot dead at a post in Killeen when the IRA launched an attack on troops. The post had been bombed a few hours previously and the IRA lay in wait for troops to arrive. Another customs officer died in the same attack. IAN HANKIN AGED 26 27th November 1971 As above ROBERT BENNER AGED 25 28th November 1971 A soldier in the Queen’s Regiment, his body was found at the border near Crossmaglen after he had used up leave to visit his girlfriend in Dundalk. he was shot dead. VIVIENNE GIBNEY AGED 17 1st December 1971 She was shot and injured four day previously during an IRA gun attack on a police patrol at Cliftonville Circus in North Belfast. She died in hospital. DENIS WILSON AGED 31 1st December 1971 A member of the UDR, he was shot dead after the IRA burst into the family farm at Curlough. PHILOMENA McGURK AGED 46 4th December 1971 Died in a no warning bomb attack on her husbands pub on North Queen Street. At approximately 8.45pm a car containing a number of men pulled up outside the bar and one of the occupants got out. He placed a parcel in the hallway, lit a fuse, rushed to the car which then sped off in the direction of the loyalist Tiger’s Bar area. Moments later the bomb exploded and the building was reduced to a pile of rubble. Fifteen people died. Later that evening the army issued a statement claiming that the bomb had been an IRA own goal, which shocked the families of those killed and the local community. Later it was claimed by the League of Empire Loyalists which was a neo Nazi group in Britain in the previous decade, however this was just a cover being used by the