David S CALDWELL
- Extended Description
- Private 24421128 David S CALDWELL. Ulster Defence Regiment. Killed 1 August 2002 aged 51.
Extract from Palace Barracks Memorial.
Mr David Caldwell Age 51, 1st August 2002 - Kilnappy Eglington - Divorced with 4 children - Construction worker Blown up by the Real IRA. He was part of a construction crew working in the Territorial Army Base at Caw Camp on the Limavady Road, Londonderry. He was killed when he picked up a bobby trapped lunch box packed with explosives. The gang used wire cutters to break through a perimeter fence of the base on the Limavady Road where they planted the device. In a phone call to the Derry Journal newspaper, accompanied by a recognized code word, the Real IRA claimed it planted the booby-trapped device. He is commemorated on a Memorial at Ballykelly Church of Ireland, Parish of Tamlaghtfinlagan and on a plaque attached to a tree at the Ulster Grove, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
