William Billy Reid
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William Billy Reid, was an active member of the Third Battalion Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (pIRA). On 15 May 1971 a foot patrol of the British army was ambushed in Academy Street in the centre of Belfast by the Third Battalion Belfast Brigade. Billy Reid, aged 32, was killed in the ensuing gunfight.
He was said to have shot dead Gunner Robert Curtis of the British Army in Belfast in 1971, making Curtis the first British soldier to be killed in Ireland since the 1920s.
