Valerie Place

Valerie Place
Born24 March 1969
Walkinstown, Dublin, Ireland
Died22 February 1993(1993-02-22) (aged 23)
Mogadishu, Somalia

Valerie Place (24 March 1969 - 22 February 1993) was an Irish nurse and overseas aid worker, who was the second western aid worker to be killed in Somalia during the conflict and famine in the early 1990s.[1]

  1. ^ White, Lawrence William (2009). "Place, Valerie". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.