Stephen Samuel SMART
- Extended Description
- Private 24683371 Stephen Samuel SMART. 3rd County Down Battalion. He was aged 23 and lived at Lisbane Drive, Newtownards. At rest in Molliva Cemetery, Newtownards, County Down .
He was a former regular soldier of the Royal Artillery.
Following extract from https://hansard.parliament.uk/commo...6C-3781-4121-BB89-3A4441234ECC/BallyduganFour
On the morning of 9 April 1990, Private John Birch, Lance Corporal John Bradley, Private Michael Adams and Private Steven Smart, all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, were murdered by the Provisional IRA in an attack on their mobile patrol on Ballydugan Road, Downpatrick. The four young soldiers, all in their 20s, were travelling as part of a two Land Rover patrol en route from Ballykinlar to Downpatrick when a 1,000 lb bomb placed in a culvert beneath the road—I repeat, a 1,000 lb bomb; imagine the magnitude of that—was detonated by command wire. The explosion was so powerful that it lifted the soldiers’ Land Rover 30 ft into the air and hurled it 30 yards into a field, killing them instantly and leaving a crater 50 ft long, 40 ft wide and 15 ft deep.
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