Glasdrumman ambush
| Glasdrumman ambush | |||||||
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| Part of the Troubles | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Provisional IRA | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Unknown | Lance Corporal Gavin Dean † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Up to 7 IRA members | 18 soldiers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
1 killed 1 wounded | ||||||
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The Glasdrumman ambush was an attack by the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army observation post in Glasdrumman, County Armagh on 17 July 1981. An attempted ambush by the British Army on IRA members at a scrapyard southwest of Crossmaglen was itself ambushed, resulting in the death of one British soldier and the IRA retaining the ability to set up checkpoints in South Armagh.