ADEN: MILITARY FUNERAL FOR GUARDSMEN KILLED IN MOUNTAIN BATTLE

Record ID: 378252

  • Title: ADEN: MILITARY FUNERAL FOR GUARDSMEN KILLED IN MOUNTAIN BATTLE
  • Date: 30th April 1967
  • Summary: MILITARY FUNERAL IN PROGRESS (NATURAL SOUND). Initials AB/VS/AS/K Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th May 1967 13:00
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  • Location: ADEN
  • Country: Yemen
  • Reuters ID: LVA2H560YC8IKVE4NDXBMWP9N24C
  • Story Text: THREE BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED IN A MOUNTAIN BATTLE WERE BURIED IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY OUTSIDE ADEN YESTERDAY (SATURDAY). WREATHS WERE LAID ON TWO OF THE MEN'S GRAVES BY THEIR WIDOWS.

    THE MEN WERE SERGEANT THOMAS THUNDER, LANCE SERGEANT PATRICK O'REILLY AND LANCE CORPORAL MICHAEL FREAR. BOTH SERGEANTS WERE MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH GUARDS.

    WREATHS WERE ALSO LAID BY THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER AND ARMY UNITS IN ADEN.

    FOUR TRIBESMEN WERE KILLED IN THE BATTLE WHICH WAS FOUGHT IN THE RADFAN MOUNTAINS AFTER THE GUARDS HAD STAGED AN AMBUSH.
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