Month: February 2022

From PRO IUNVA Fifty seven years ago, the DF suffered the first of nine deaths in Cyprus when, on 22 Feb 1965, A/Coy Sgt Wallace J Macauley (39), MP Sec, HQ Coy, 41 Inf Bn UNFICYP, died at the Austrian Field Hospital in Nicosia following a heart attack. He was from Ferns Co Wexford. He…

From PRO IUNVA In the early hours of the morning of 18 Feb 1999, Pte Kevin Barrett (20), Wpns Pl, C Coy, 84 Inf Bn UNIFIL, died in his billet at position 6-42 Brashit from a single gunshot wound to the head, the round had been fired from his personal issue weapon, a Steyr AUG…

From IUNVA PRO On Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb 2000, the DF suffered the highest number of fatalities in a single incident in Lebanon when four young peacekeepers from B Coy 86 Inf Bn, were killed when their vehicle skidded, hit an embankment and turned over twice on the main coastal road at Damour, about 12…

From PRO IUNVA On Tuesday 10 Feb 1981, Acting Coy Sgt James Martin, died in Israel while was serving with UNIFIL MP Coy at Naqoura, at the time, he was a member of  3 Irish Component UNIFIL HQ.  He enlisted in the DF in 1964 and he was on his fifth tour of overseas duty. …