Bombardier Heinz Pisarek and Gunner Joseph Brooks

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RIP

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Thinking of you both today. Rest easy lads.

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Always remembered along with their Regimental brothers of 94 who fell doing their duty.

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Another year gone by lads but the pain never fades.
Rest easy Gunners.

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We will remember them.

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25 November 1973

Bombardier Heinz Pisarek and Gunner Joseph Brooks of 156 Inkerman Battery, 94 Locating Regiment, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Heinz and "Steve" were on duty at the Tango2 OP located on top of Rossville flats in the Bogside, Derry. Their task was to guard the lower entrance to the rest room which lead to the OP. At approxamately 2100hrs, the OP was fired on from the Glenfada Park area. At the same time, using people exiting the lift as cover, two gunmen surprised the men on guard shooting both of them dead.
Heinz Pisarek was one of the most popular guys in the regiment and a personal friend of mine. Tremendously fit, he was a Regimental P.T.I. and had a sense of humour to be admired. His supply of jokes could last for hours. Heinz had already had a lucky escape in 1971 when, in the same incident in which Gunner Curtis was killed in the New Lodge, Belfast, a 9mm round hit the battery pack of the A41 radio he was carrying and lodged in his web belt.

Always Remembered....Never Forgotten

R.I.P. Old friend.

Joseph or Steve as everyone knew him was relatively new to the regiment but during build up showed himself to be a really switched on lad.

Always Remembered....Never Forgotten

R.I.P.

As a point of irony, the first two soldiers to die through terrorist action were from 94 Regiment. Heinz and "Steve" were 201 and 202.

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R.I.P lads.

Gone but never forgotten.

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Another year gone by.
"They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old."

Rest easy lads.

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