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This memorial can be seen at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.
Operation Banner 1969 - 2007
Dedicated to The Bravest of the Brave.
The Ammunition Technicians and Ammunition Technical Officers of the Royal Army Ordnance and Royal Logistic Corps killed whilst conducting disposal operations.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
This statue represents a Bomb Disposal Operator conducting The Long Walk to an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) wearing an Explosive Ordance Disposal disruptor. To the rear is a piece of Electronic Counter Measures equipment.
The Fallen.
Staff Sergeant 318778 Joseph Anthony CULKIN. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed by an explosion in a hillside cave near Limassol. 23rd September 1958 at Limassol, Cyprus.( Posthumously Mentioned in Despatches in recognition of distinguished services in Cyprus during 1956. An extract from Special Forces Roll of Honour) Born 16th February 1914 and died aged 42. At rest in Waynes Keep Military Cemetery, Nicosia, Cyrpus
http://www.friendsandrelations.com/html/detail.php/id/3158/relations/joseph_anthony_culkin.html
Staff Sergeant 10596446 Ronald KIRBY. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed by a home made mine on the 31st July 1958 at Sinda Village, Famagusta, Cyrpus. Born 1st July 1927 and died aged 31. At rest in Waynes Keep Military Cemetery, Nicosia, Cyrpus
Sergeant 23675156 Colin Charles WORKMAN. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed while disarming a bomb planted by Maoist activist on the 28th August 1967 at Kowloon, Hong Kong. Born 1st October 1941 and died aged 25. At rest in Hong Kong Cemetery,
(Formerly Colonial Cemetery) at IJ Wong Nei, Chung Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/soldier-honoured-43-years-after-death-in-hong-kong-2010111814#axzz4A9iS0inB
Captain 474864 David Anthony STEWARDSON. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 9th September 1971 at Castlerobin Orange Hall, Dunmurray, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Born 11th February 1942 and died aged 29. At rest in Barnhill Cemetery, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
Army Captain killed by booby trap
IN September 1971 the Star reported the sad news that an army officer was killed trying to dismantle a booby trap bomb planted outside the Orange Hall at Castlerobin near Dunmurry.The Officer who died was Captain David Anthony Stewardson, RAOC, 29 of South Queensferry, West Lothian. Captain Stewardson, who was married had only been in the Province 10 days. The Officer had been working with the bomb for a matter of minutes when it went off in his face.
http://www.geograph.ie/photo/90314
http://lisburn.com/archives/info/news-2011/past-times1.html
Warrant Officer 2, 22205720 2 Colin Jack Llewellyn DAVIES. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed attempting to defuse a bomb planted by the IRA in a car showroom, William Street, Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. As he approached he heard the device ticking. He was leaving the building when it went off. He was killed by falling masonary on the 24th November 1971 Born 11th December 1933 and died aged 37.
Staff Sergeant 23708134,Christopher Robin CRACKNELL. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He was killed on the 15th March 1972 along with one other member, Sergeant Anthony Butcher of a bomb-disposal team by an IRA booby-trap device left in a car off the Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The 20 lb device had been left on the back seat of the car which was spotted by a foot patrol. (Glosters stationed in Albert Street Mill) A controlled explosion was used to open the boot of the car but it did not trigger the main device which only exploded as the team approached the vehicle for a closer inspection. Born on the 29th December 1943 and died aged 28. (Author). I was medic serving with the Glosters. My colleagues, including the M.O. Major Harris, RAMC and I were stationed in Hastings Street. We were sent to the scene, and put on standby, it was not a happy ending. The name of the street if my memory serves me correct was Willow Street, next to Stanley Street. This street no longer exists, Grosvenor Road police station now covers that location, but the next street does and that is Stanley Street.
Sergeant 23968517 Anthony Stephen BUTCHER. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed along with Staff Sergeant Christopher Cracknell on the 15th March 1972 in a side street on the lower Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born 24th February 1948, Lived at Strenshall, Yorkshire and died 24. At rest in St Patricks Cemetery, Leystone.
Major 415727 Bernard (Bernie) Charles CALLADENE. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 30th March 1972 by a car bomb in Wellington Street, Belfast Northern Ireland. Born 17th May 1932 and died aged 39. At rest in Fulford Military Cemetery, Fordlands Road, Yorkshire.
London Gazette dated 3rd October 1972. Mentioned in Despatches.
Major Bernard Charles CALLADENE (415727), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (died of wounds) and many others.
When site comes up, right click for name search
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/mediaContent/open/scripts/1972/19720330_EE_01_ITV.pdf
Captain 479396 John Haddow YOUNG. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed15th July 1972 while dealing with a bomb at Silverbridge, near Forkhill, South Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born 31st January 1945 and died aged 27. At rest in Aldershot Crematorium.
Warrant Officer 2, 23239297 William James CLARK. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 3rd August 1972 while dealing with an IRA bomb packed into a 10 gallon drum on the Sion Mills to Clady road, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Born 29th October 1937, in Singapore lived at Bronsley near Basingstoke, Hampshire, and died aged 34. At rest in Acklam Cemetery, Acklam Road, Middlesbrough.
Sergeant 23687477 Roy Edward HILLS. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 5th December 1972 by a mortar bomb when trying to make the area safe after an attack on an Army post at Kitchen Hill in the centre of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland Born 13th March 1944 aged 28. At rest in Grove Park Cemetery, Marvels Lane, Lewisham. SE12.
Captain 476528 Barry Stanley GRITTEN. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed in the early hours of the 21st June 1973 by explosion whilst clearing a bomb making factory in a Nissen hut near the Lecky Road, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Born 16th January 1944 and died aged 29. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered on the grounds of Welbeck College, Loughborough, Leicestershire.
http://nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0450.pdf
Staff Sergeant 23211152 Ronald Frank BECKETT. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 30th August 1973 as he dragged a 20lb bomb out of Tullyhommon Post Office, Pettigoe, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Born 20th September 1936 and died aged 36. At rest in St Pauls Churchyard, Tupsley, Herefordshire. HR1 1RT
Captain 488833 Ronald WILKINSON. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 23rd September 1973while defusing a bomb at Edgebaston, Birmingha, England. Born 13th December 1942 and died aged 30. At rest in Deepcut Military Cemetery, Camberley, Surrey. GU16 6QT
http://www.nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M1210.pdf
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/captain-killed-birmingham-explosion-third-6335725
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=WT-General/PageLayout&cid=1223092626271&pagename=BCC/Common/Wrapper/Wrapper
Staff Sergeant 23835033 Allan Norman BRAMMAH. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 18th February 1974 while examining a roadside bomb at Moybane, near Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born 24th December 1942, lived at Hatfield, near Doncaster, Yorkshire and died aged 31. At rest in Rosehill Cemetery, Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN4 6NE.
London Gazette dated 8th October 1974. Mentioned in Despatches.
23835033 Staff Sergeant Alan Norman BRAMMAH (Deceased) Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
http://nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0130.pdf
http://note.taable.com/post/11568F/The-Veterans-Party-P/2b430-T60970T87-T1-035668-6980783T
Staff Sergeant 23687200 Vernon Ivan ROSE. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 7th November 1974 by a landmine on the outskirts Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Born 28th March 1944 and died aged 30. At rest in Park Crematorium, Guildford Road, Aldershot.
http://www.nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0986.pdf
Warrant Officer 2, 2350785 John Arthur MADDOCKS. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 2nd December 1974 killed by a 10 gallon milk churn bomb he was dealing with at Gortmullen, Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Born 14th July 1942 and died aged 32.
http://nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0686.pdf
Corporal 24228287 Calvert William BROWN. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed along with WO2 Edward (Gus) Garside on the 17th July 1975 while examining a decoy bomb at Ford's Cross, Forkhill, County Armagh Northern Ireland. Three other soldiers were murdered. Born 6th March 1950 and died aged 25. At rest in St John the Baptist Churchyard, Lound, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Warrant Officer 2, 23487353 Edward GARSIDE. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed along with Cpl, Calvert W Brown on the 17th July 1975 while examining a decoy bomb at Ford's Cross, Forkhill, County Armagh Northern Ireland. Three other soldiers were murdered. Born 28th September 1940 and died aged 34. At rest in Chepstow, Mathern Road, Bulwark, Chepstow.
Captain Roger Philip GOAD. GC, BEM. Killed 29th August 1975 at London, England. He was and explosive officer with the Metropolitan Police, London.
http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.co.uk/captain-roger-goad-gc-bem/
http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/police_gc.htm
Extract from Wikipedia Encyclopaedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Goad_(GC)
He was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 29 August 1975. He had previously been awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958 for gallantry whilst serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Cyprus, for repeated acts of deliberate courage in the disarming of bombs and booby traps set by terrorists
Following a telephone tip-off, police officers found a suspicious package placed in a shop doorway in Kensington Church Street in London. Goad was the senior bomb disposal expert on the scene. A bomb, fitted with an anti-handling device, had been placed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Goad attempted to defuse the bomb but it exploded, killing him instantly. He was a 40-year-old married man with two children. His citation was published in The London Gazette of 1 October 1976. The bomb had been placed by the active service unit responsible for the 1974–1975 terror campaign in London, who were later captured at the conclusion of the Balcombe Street siege.
http://www.victoriacrossonline.co.uk/roger-p-goad-gc-bem/4589183028
Sergeant 24060262 Martin Eamon WALSH. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 9th January 1977 while examining a milk churn bomb near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Born 22nd August 1948 and died aged 28. At rest in Rhyl Town Cemetery, Dyserth Road, Rhyl, LL18 4DS
Warrant Officer 2, 23866974 Michael O'NEILL. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed 31st May 1981 while examining a car the bomb exploded at Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Born 26th June 1946 aged 34. At rest in Carlton Cemetery, Main Street, Carlton, near Goole, Humberside.
http://www.nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0871.pdf
Expo Kenneth HOWORTH, GM. Killed 26th October 1981 at London England.
Extract from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Howorth
Kenneth Robert Howorth, GM, (28 September 1932 – 26 October 1981), was a British explosives officer with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was killed whilst attempting to defuse a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Oxford Street. Howorth served for twenty-three years with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) with postings to Austria, Japan, Tripoli in Libya, Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong and various United Kingdom bases. He reached the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Conductor) before leaving to join the Metropolitan Police Service as a civilian explosives officer in 1973. On 26 October 1981, police received warnings that bombs on a busy shopping street in central London would explode within thirty minutes. A booby-trapped improvised explosive device (IED), planted by the IRA, was discovered in the basement toilet of a Wimpy restaurant on Oxford Street. While attempting to defuse the bomb, Howorth was killed instantly when it detonated
Warrant Officer 2, 24305257 John Robert HOWARD. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Killed by a booby trap bomb 8th July 1988 on the Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born 9th March 1959 and died aged 29.
http://www.nivets.org.uk/ROH/certs/M0540.pdf
Staff Sergeant 24841726 Christopher Donaldson MUIR. Royal Logistics Corps. Killed 31st March 2003 at Al Mushrif, Iraq. Born 26th June 1970 and died aged 32. Commemorated at the EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Memorial Garden. Palace Barracks, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.co.uk/321-eod-memorial-garden-northern-ireland/
Warrant Officer 2, 25018197 Gary (Gaz) John O'DONNELL, GM* and Bar. Royal Logistics Corps. He was blown up when a booby-trapped device exploded as he tried to clear a path for his comrades on the 10th September 2008 at Musa Qaleh, Afghanistan. Born 21st July 1968 and died aged 40. He was awarded the George Medal twice. The George Medal is the second highest decoration for "acts of great bravery" not "in the face of the enemy". His second George Medal was the first such award in 26 years and the first ever posthumous bar. O'Donnell was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Afghanistan.
At rest in Oakley Woods Crematorium, Bishop Tachbrook, Leamington Spa. CV33 9QP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_O'Donnell_(British_Army_soldier)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2984513/WO2-Gary-ODonnell.html
https://www.gov.uk/government/fatal...nt-royal-logistic-corps-killed-in-afghanistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...accuses-wealthy-2nd-wife-cashing-bravery.html (Auth, lowest of the low)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...er-than-life-and-brave-as-a-lion-1638504.html
Captain 558805 Daniel Marc SHEPHERD, GM. Royal Logistics Corps. Killed 20th July 2009 at Nad-E-Alt, Afghanistan. Born 23rd February 1981 aged 28. At rest in Woodbank Cemetery, Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire LN5 5UT
https://www.gov.uk/government/fatalities/captain-daniel-shepherd-killed-in-afghanistan--2
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ur-bog-standard-bomb-killed-inquest-told.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8550539.stm
Staff Sergeant 25045811 Olaf Sean George SCHMID, Royal Logistics Corps. Killed 31st October 2009 while defusing a bomb in Sangin, Helmed province Musa Qaleh, Afghanistan. Born 11th June 1979 and died aged 30.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Schmid
https://www.gov.uk/government/fatalities/staff-sergeant-olaf-schmid-killed-in-afghanistan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/02/british-soldier-died-defusing-bomb
Captain 562251 Daniel A READ. Royal Logistics Corps. Killed 11th October 2010 at Musa Qaleh, Afghanistan. Born 8th December 1978 and died aged 31. At rest in Illogan Cemetery, Church Road, Redruth, Cornwall.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/funeral-today-for-afghanistan-ex-a88457/
https://www.fallenheroesproject.org/great-britain/daniel-read/4
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/13/soldier-killed-afghanistan-daniel-read
Staff Sergeant 25130109 Brett George LINLEY, GM. Royal Logistics Corps. Killed 17th July 2010 at Sur Gul Khan, Afghanistan. Born 23rd January 1981 and died aged 29. At rest in Wythall Cemetery, Middle Lane, Wythall, Worcestershire. B47 6JX
https://www.gov.uk/government/fatalities/staff-sergeant-brett-george-linley-killed-in-afghanistan
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bomb-disposal-hero-brett-linley-236471
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-12862068
Captain 562165 Lisa Jade HEAD. 321 Explosive Ordnance Squadron, 11 EOD Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps. She was severely injured on the 18th April 2011 atNahre-E-Saraj, Afghanistan while dealing with a second IED. She was casavacted to United Kingdom, but died of her injuries 19th April 2011 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Born 30th November 1981 and died aged 29. At rest in Almondbury Cemetery, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. HD5 8XF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Head
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...isposal-expert-die-Afghanistan-laid-rest.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-17520714
