- Extended Description
- Private 24635023 John ROXBOROUGH 6th County Tyrone, Died 13 July 1983 aged 18. At rest in Lower Langfield Cemetery, Drumquin, County Tyrone.
The following is an extract from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballygawley_land_mine_attack Ballygawley land mine attack
On the morning of 13 July 1983, soldiers of the 6th Battalion UDR were travelling in a convoy of five armoured Land Rovers from St Lucia Barracks, Omagh to Ballykinler Barracks for a training exercise. As the convoy was about to begin the long descent down Ballymacilroy Hill into Ballygawley, a 600-pound (270 kg) land mine exploded under the last vehicle. It had been planted in a culvert underneath the road and detonated remotely. The blast threw the vehicle into the air and gouged a large crater in the road. Three soldiers were killed outright and a fourth died later in hospital. The soldiers killed were Ronald Alexander (19), Thomas Harron (25), John Roxborough (19), and Oswell Neely (20), all Protestants from Northern Ireland
