The Troubles in Rosslea

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The Troubles in Rosslea recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Rosslea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Rosslea during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1972

• 2 June 1972 - Victor Husband (23) and Brian Robertson (23), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their foot patrol, near Rosslea.

1980

• 11 February 1980 - Joseph Rose (21) and Winston Howe (35), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol on Lisnaskea Road, near Rosslea.

1989

• 13 December 1989 - Michael Paterson (21) and James Houston (23), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun, grenade and bomb attack on the permanent British Army Vehicle Check Point at Derryard, near Rosslea.

[edit] References

• NI Conflict Archive on the Internet