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Gerald Cornelius CLOETE
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- Lance Corporal 24345867 Gerald Cornelius CLOETE, 5th County Londonderry Battalion.
Born 1931 to Gert Cornelius Jacobus Peiter and Adelaide Kate Cloete, nee Santer
He was off duty when he was shot dead by the PIRA in his car near his home at Glenside Park, Londonderry on the 6th April 1977 aged 46. At rest at Altnagelvin Cemetery, County Londonderry.
Source for the following. Issue 41, The Troubles.
A part time UDR lance corporal was shot dead as he drove from his Glenside Park home to an evening shift at the Du Pont factory in Derry. He was named as Gerald Cornelius Cloete, aged 46, and he was hit by five bullets in the head, chest and hand. Mr Cloete was married with five children and the gunmen crashed their car into his vehicle and shot him as he tried to get out. He was born in England and had served in the Royal Navy from 1946 - 1961
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