Death of Pte Patrick Wright – 21/08/1988 – Lebanon

From National PRO On St Patrick’s Day 1963, Cpl John McGrath (47), who was a Medical Orderly with A Coy 38 Inf Bn ONUC, was travelling in the back of a truck from an inter-Coy football match in Kolwezi in Katanga Province to Camp Ruwe. The Coy pennant was fixed behind the cab and the…

by Pro Iunva In this article we remember the death of the second member of the DF who died while on service with the UN, he was the first Senior Irish Officer in the service of the UN and was a pathfinder for the generations who followed.  Col Justin MacCarthy (46) was born in 1914…

By PRO IUNVA In this article we remember the sacrifice of  Comdt Michael Nestor on the 40th anniversary of his death near Beirut in Sep 1982. In 1982, Comdt Michael Ambrose Nestor was a military observer with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), based at Naqoura in South Lebanon and working with Observer Group…

From PRO IUNVA Sgt John Hamill, Armd Car Gp, 4 Inf Gp UNFICYP lost his life in a road traffic accident at approximately 0750 hours on 7 Apr 1965, he was the second DF casualty in Cyprus. He had been travelling in a convoy consisting of four Panhard AML 60 armoured cars and an ammunition…

By PRO IUNVA In this article we remember the day 62 years ago when the DF suffered the highest death toll at a crossing point on the Luweyeye River in the Congo. On Tuesday, 8 Nov 1960, an eleven-man patrol from 2 Pl, A Coy, 33 Inf  Bn was attacked by a large number of…

By PRO IUNVA Trooper Paul Fogarty was born in the Families’ Hospital, part of the General Military Hospital in the Curragh Training Camp in 1963. His mother was Ella Fogarty, née Hogan from Feakle Co Clare and his father, John Fogarty, was BQMS at the AAS in Naas. He was the second youngest of seven…