Declan Arthurs

Vol. Declan Arthurs was an IRA Volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade from Galbally near Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.^[1]

Declan Arthurs

Arthurs was killed along with seven other IRA Volunteers and a civilian Anthony Hughes in a pre-planned Special Air Service ambush as he attacked a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Loughgall, County Armagh.

Declan Arthurs was killed on May 8, 1987 in in a pre-planned Special Air Service ambush during an attack on Loughgall RUC barracks in County Armagh which also claimed the lives of seven of his Volunteers, Patrick Kelly, Jim Lynagh, Seamus Donnelly, Tony Gormley, Eugene Kelly, Pádraig McKearney, and Gerard O'Callaghan and an innocent civilian Anthony Hughes.

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