Strabane ambush

Strabane ambush
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner

Near the ambush site
Date23 February 1985
Location54°49′48″N 7°28′12″W / 54.83000°N 7.47000°W / 54.83000; -7.47000
Result British victory
Belligerents
Provisional IRA
IRA West Tyrone Brigade

 United Kingdom

Commanders and leaders
Charles Breslin  Unknown
Strength
3 IRA Volunteers 8 soldiers
Casualties and losses
3 killed None
Strabane ambush is located in Northern Ireland
Strabane ambush
Ambush at Strabane

The Strabane Ambush was a British Special Air Service ambush against a three man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit. All three members of the IRA unit were killed in the ambush. At the time it was the most successful SAS operation against the IRA, until the Loughgall ambush two years later in 1987 in which eight IRA volunteers were killed.[1]

  1. ^ Neville, Leigh (2016) The SAS 1983–2014 Bloomsbury Publishing, p.15. ISBN 1472814053