Month: February 2022

By PRO IUNVA On Friday 24 Feb 1989, Pte Michael Mc Neela (21), A Coy, 64 Inf Bn was shot dead when he was hit in the chest by a 12.7 mm round that was fired by a member of the De Facto Forces, the so-called South Lebanon Army. He was on checkpoint duty at…

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…