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Irish United Nations Veterans Association
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Month: May 2022

Deaths Overseas

Death Overseas of Sgt Edward Yeates 31 May 1980

PRO IUNVAOn Saturday 31 May 1980 Sgt Edward (Ted) Yeates, A Coy, 47 Inf Bn UNIFIL died when the Panhard APC he was travelling in overturned. He was the patrol commander and he was in the turret when the accident happened. The vehicle patrol was returning to Coy HQ at Brashit (6-16) from the area…

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Death Overseas – Pte Billy Kedian

From PRO IUNVA At 0504 hours of Monday 31 May 1999, Pte William (Billy) Kedian (21), C Coy, 85 Inf Bn was killed by shrapnel when an 81 mm mortar round exploded in post 6-42 Brashit. Two mortar rounds had been fired from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and De Facto Forces (DFF) Compound W144….

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Death Overseas of Lt Col Tom Stapleton (Retd) 27 May 2004

Lt Col Thomas (Tom) Stapleton (Retd) died from natural causes while he was serving as a civilian UN staff member with the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) on 27 May 2004. He was undergoing medical treatment in Ireland when he died surrounded by his family, his wife Margaret, children Noni, Peter…

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Death Overseas of Sgt Charles Forrester UNIFIL 21 MAY 1989

From PRO IUNVA On Sunday 21 May 1989, Sgt Charles Forrester, died in his sleep from natural causes at Al Yatun, South Lebanon while serving with Recce Coy, 65 Inf Bn, UNIFIL. He was the 31st DF member to die while serving with UNIFIL. His home unit was the 2 FA Regt, McKee Bks, Dublin,…

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Death Overseas Garda Sgt Paul Reid UNPROFOR 18 May 1995

by PRO IUNVAOn 28 Apr 1995, Gda Sgt Paul Michael Reid (39) started a one year tour of duty with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On Thursday night, 18 May, he and a colleague, Gda Philip Carr, were travelling in a UN jeep from Sarajevo Airport to their base…

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60th Anniversary of the Death of Capt Ronald McCann in the Congo 09 MAY 1962

By PRO IUNVASixty years ago, on 9 May 1962, Capt Ronald McCann died from injuries suffered in a road traffic accident while he was serving with Opération des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC) in the Congo. He was the twenty fourth of twenty eight members of the DF to die during Ireland’s first armed UN…

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