Kesh ambush

Kesh ambush
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner

Drumrush Lodge, close to where the ambush took place
Date2 December 1984
Location54°31′19.2″N 7°43′22.8″W / 54.522000°N 7.723000°W / 54.522000; -7.723000
Result

British victory

  • IRA ambush thwarted
Belligerents
Provisional IRA

 UK

Commanders and leaders
Kieran Fleming  Alistair Slater 
Strength
4 IRA volunteers unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed (1 died from drowning)
2 captured
1 killed

On 2 December 1984, a four-man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit was ambushed by a British Army Special Air Service team while attempting to bomb a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol who they had lured to Drumrush Lodge Restaurant. Two IRA volunteers and one SAS soldier were killed during the action. [1]

  1. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.