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1st March 1991
Pte Paul D. Sutcliffe aged 24
D Coy – 2nd Bn. Ulster Defence Regiment
Originally from Lancashire and a former member of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, he was killed by the IRA, who used a new type of home-made weapon for the first time in the attack near Mullaghcreevie housing estate outside Armagh. Three other UDR Soldiers were injured and one of them, the driver, Private Roger James Love, died in hospital three days later. Their Land Rover, which was leading a two-vehicle patrol, was hit as it moved off from temporary traffic lights at road-works on the Killyleagh Road. The missile, a horizontal-firing mortar bomb, blew the roof and the back of the vehicle off. ‘I heard moaning and groaning coming from the vehicle’, said a man who went to the scene. ‘It had been ripped apart. Soldiers were working to get the injured out of the tattered remains. Then I noticed a body lying in the middle of the road near the rear of the Land Rover. It was a man in Soldier’s uniform. People in uniform were attending to him’. An expert told the inquest that the mortar was on a mound of earth in the garden of a house beside the traffic lights. The command wire ran to the back garden. The expert described it as a complex home-made device manufactured by a number of techniques. Private Sutcliffe had served for four years with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment before joining the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1989. He was cremated in Lancashire, then his ashes were scattered in the Mourne Mountains.
A man who not only served this country, but fell in love with it.
Murdered by terrorists.
Lest We Forget
Pte Paul D. Sutcliffe aged 24
D Coy – 2nd Bn. Ulster Defence Regiment
Originally from Lancashire and a former member of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, he was killed by the IRA, who used a new type of home-made weapon for the first time in the attack near Mullaghcreevie housing estate outside Armagh. Three other UDR Soldiers were injured and one of them, the driver, Private Roger James Love, died in hospital three days later. Their Land Rover, which was leading a two-vehicle patrol, was hit as it moved off from temporary traffic lights at road-works on the Killyleagh Road. The missile, a horizontal-firing mortar bomb, blew the roof and the back of the vehicle off. ‘I heard moaning and groaning coming from the vehicle’, said a man who went to the scene. ‘It had been ripped apart. Soldiers were working to get the injured out of the tattered remains. Then I noticed a body lying in the middle of the road near the rear of the Land Rover. It was a man in Soldier’s uniform. People in uniform were attending to him’. An expert told the inquest that the mortar was on a mound of earth in the garden of a house beside the traffic lights. The command wire ran to the back garden. The expert described it as a complex home-made device manufactured by a number of techniques. Private Sutcliffe had served for four years with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment before joining the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1989. He was cremated in Lancashire, then his ashes were scattered in the Mourne Mountains.
A man who not only served this country, but fell in love with it.
Murdered by terrorists.
Lest We Forget
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