The Troubles in Ballykinler explained

The Troubles in Ballykinler recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Ballykinler, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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

1974

• 28 October 1974 - Michael Swanick (20) and Alan Coughlan (22), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb attack outside Abercorn Barracks.^[1] Private Swanick was a member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and Corporal Coughlan also a member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment.^[2]

In 1986 a memorial stone to the two soldiers who died was unveiled outside a new Sandes home built on the site of the one destroyed.^[3]

See also

• Ballykinler

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sutton Index of Deaths, 1974 . Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). 31 August 2006.
2. Web site: Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment . Palace Barracks Memorial Garden. 25 January 2010.
3. Web site: The bombing of Sandes Soldiers Home, Ballykinler . 1st Bn Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment . Farmersboys.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421090943/http://history.farmersboys.com/Postings/NI/sandes.htm . 21 April 2012 . 19 July 2006 . 5 December 2023.