The Troubles in Rosslea

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

Notable incidents in Rosslea during the Troubles, or ones 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 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.

1986

• 26 April 1986 - Seamus McElwaine (26), a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Knockacullion, near Scotstown, County Monaghan, was shot dead by the SAS.

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.

References

• NI Conflict Archive on the Internet