Attack on Derryard checkpoint
| Attack on Derryard PVC | |||||||
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| Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner | |||||||
Republican memorial at Carragunt bridge, on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, often crossed by Provisional IRA forces during the Troubles to attack British targets inside County Fermanagh | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Provisional IRA |
United Kingdom • British Army • RUC | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Thomas Murphy Michael Ryan | Corporal Robert Duncan | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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1 Improvised armoured vehicle 11 in attacking unit 9 providing tactical support |
9 in the complex 4 on nearby patrol 1 helicopter | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
2 killed 2 wounded | ||||||
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On 13 December 1989 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at Derryard townland, a few miles north of Rosslea, County Fermanagh. The IRA unit, firing from the back of an armoured dump truck, attacked the small base with heavy machine-guns, grenades, anti-tank rockets and a flamethrower. A nearby Army patrol arrived at the scene and a fierce firefight erupted. The IRA withdrew after leaving a van bomb inside the complex, but the device did not fully detonate. The assault on the outpost left two soldiers dead and two wounded.