Robert J GLOVER

Private 24289784 Robert J GLOVER. UDR. Killed 15 November 1989 aged 37 at Moneymore, Co Londonderry. Married with 3 children - Contractor Blown up by an IRA UVBT. He was killed when a bomb placed under his car exploded at Hodges Hill on the Ballygawly to Dungannon road. The force of the explosion blew his Audi car through a wire fence and into a field where it burst into flames. He had driven 20 miles before the bomb was triggered by driving over a ramp. The IRA said he was a member of a contracting firm which had been supplying material to the security forces. Robert Glover had been involved in raising money for charities, particularly the BBCs Children in Need appeals. His mother Eileen was interviewed for a Thames Television This Week programme which was broadcast on 28 June 1990. She said: They put Semtex under his side of the car and that went up, and the car went on fire and there was a massive explosion. You know, I've had deaths in the family but there was always something there, there was a body and that was very final, but we never saw Robert. They brought his coffin home and they said, This is Roberts remains, I think that was really the heart rendering thing, that we never even saw him to say goodbye to. His uncle William McCutcheon, a UDR soldier from Moneymore, was shot dead by the IRA in 1976 at his work in Castledawson.