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Corporal 24377959 Thomas HARRON 6th County Tyrone, Died 13 July 1983 aged 25. He is at rest in Urney Parish Churchyard, Urney, County Tyrone.

Private 24635023 John ROXBOROUGH
Private 24524784 Oswald NEELY
Private 24612128 Ronald Roulston ALEXANDER,

The following is an extract from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballygawley_land_mine_attack Ballygawley land mine attack
On the morning of 13 July 1983, soldiers of the 6th Battalion UDR were travelling in a convoy of five armoured Land Rovers from St Lucia Barracks, Omagh to Ballykinler Barracks for a training exercise. As the convoy was about to begin the long descent down Ballymacilroy Hill into Ballygawley, a 600-pound (270 kg) land mine exploded under the last vehicle. It had been planted in a culvert underneath the road and detonated remotely. The blast threw the vehicle into the air and gouged a large crater in the road. Three soldiers were killed outright and a fourth died later in hospital. The soldiers killed were Ronald Alexander (19), Thomas Harron (25), John Roxborough (19), and Oswell Neely (20), all Protestants from Northern Ireland

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