Corporals killings - Wikipedia
WEBOn 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings.
The Funeral Murders: ‘They were like hyenas ripping their kill apart ...
WEBMar 19, 2018 · The unmarked car’s two occupants – British army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes – were pulled out and savagely attacked: stripped, kicked in the head, beaten, stabbed, thrown over a wall...
Corporals Wood and Howes killed in Belfast 'mistakenly …
WEBMar 20, 2018 · Two soldiers murdered by the IRA after being attacked by a mob in west Belfast had been mistakenly identified as belonging to the SAS, it has emerged.
The inside story of the brutal killing of Wood and Howes
WEBSep 18, 2016 · During his training to work in surveillance in Northern Ireland, Sean Hartnett was given the inside story from British Intelligence of how Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were killed by the...
Thirty years on: corporals offered '˜little or no resistance' as they ...
WEBMar 7, 2018 · Three days after Michael Stone's murderous gun and grenade attack on mourners at an IRA burial in Belfast, the sheer barbarity witnessed in the slaying of two Army corporals at a subsequent...
Pat Finucane: Who was the murdered Belfast solicitor?
WEBSep 11, 2024 · The mourners dragged the corporals from their car and took them to waste ground where they were shot dead by IRA gunmen. The abduction was captured on TV and remains among the most disturbing...
Memorials to two Army corporals killed during 1988 funeral horror
WEBMar 21, 2019 · It's 31 years since corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were dragged from their car by a mob after straying into the path of the IRA funeral cortege of Kevin Brady, one of those killed when...
Shooting The Darkness: Capturing the violence of the Troubles - BBC
WEBCorporals Derek Wood and David Howes were dragged out of a car and beaten. They were later stripped and shot dead by the IRA, their bodies dumped on waste ground.
Guns, grenades and lynchings: Revisiting the funeral murders
WEBMar 19, 2018 · The car containing two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, as it drove into a funeral cortege in west Belfast in 1988.
BBC Two - The Funeral Murders
WEBMar 19, 2018 · At Kevin Brady's funeral three days later, two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, drove down a main road in West Belfast towards the funeral cortege.
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