James Daniel ELLIOTT

Corporal 24199084 James Daniel ELLIOTT, 3rd County Down Battalion. He was abducted by the PIRA while driving a lorry and was found shot dead at Altnamackan near Newtownhamilton County Armagh, on 19th April 1972 aged 33. He was off duty.
He is commemorated on a tree memorial plaque at the UDR Memorial Ulster Ash Grove, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

What happened to him afterwards, did happen during the troubles in Northern Ireland, thankfully not a lot.

The following is a short extract from an article on face book (Operation Banner) His body was “surrounded by claymore mines. The body itself is booby-trapped to explode if moved. He also has a huge 500lb bomb attached to him, in 6 milk churns, with command wires leading across the border to a farmhouse. Any attempt to approach him will blow his corpse to pieces along with anyone attempting to retrieve him. He will have to lie there, dead, covered in blood and mud, naked except for his pants and on display for all to see, until the explosives are defused by the Bomb Squad”.

Following extract from Issue 12, The Troubles.

20 April 1972 UDR man was executed. Relatives claimed he was tortured.
The kidnapped UDR man James Elliott’s body was discovered he had been shot through the back of his head and back. His body was surrounded by a minefield of six claymore devices and a huge 500ib bomb only feet from the body. His injuries were, nose and jaws had been broken and he had been shot several times. It was believed he had been tortured.

Following extract from Issue 13 The Troubles. 26 May 1972. UDR man was not tortured.
An inquest into the death of UDR man Cpl James Elliott who was kidnapped and shot eleven times has been told that the State Pathologist was satisfied that he had not been tortured, nor his body had been mutilated or transferred with as previously been reported on the 17 April and his body surrounded by explosive and claymore mines. The inquest heard that although the explosives were intended to kill security forces who went to recover the body, the body itself was not booby-trapped.



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