Private 24684076 Michael David ADAMS.3rd Ulster Defence Regiment stationed Ballykinler Army Camp, County Down.
He was aged 23 and from the Bangor Road, Newtownards but originally from London. He was a former member of the Royal Engineers and had been in the UDR for 7 months. The hymns sung at the funeral were those chosen for their wedding. At rest in Roselawn Cemetery, Ballygowan Road Belfast.
Murdered in the line of duty 9 April 1990 aged 23 years on the Ballydugan, road outside Downpatrick. County Down Northern Ireland.
At rest in Roselawn Cemetery Ballygowan Road, Belfast. T 1735
The following extract is taken from a House of Commons debate which took place on Wednesday 19 April 2017 known as Ballydugan Four.
“On the morning of 9 April 1990, Private John Birch, Lance Corporal John Bradley, Private Michael Adams and Private Steven Smart, all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, were murdered by the Provisional IRA in an attack on their mobile patrol on Ballydugan Road, Downpatrick. The four young soldiers, all in their 20s, were travelling as part of a two Land Rover patrol en route from Ballykinlar to Downpatrick when a 1,000 lb bomb placed in a culvert beneath the road—I repeat, a 1,000 lb bomb; imagine the magnitude of that—was detonated by command wire. The explosion was so powerful that it lifted the soldiers’ Land Rover 30 ft into the air and hurled it 30 yards into a field, killing them instantly and leaving a crater 50 ft long, 40 ft wide and 15 ft deep.”
Click on
ballydugan four in Tags box for other connection.
