REED, Derek Bernard
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Rank:
Sergeant
Unit / Base:
'3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
P023040J
Born:
Wednesday, August 23, 1944
Died :
Friday, May 18, 1973
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
28
Cemetery/Memorial:
Local Roll of Honour:
Sergeant Derek Reed RM, a helicopter pilot attached to 652 Squadron, Army Air Corps, was killed with three other NCOs, by a booby trap bomb, as they got into their car outside the Knock-na-Moe Hotel in Omagh. He was married and from Hessel, Yorkshire.
Sources
AFM ROH.
NIVets.org
Londonderry Sentinel newspaper 23 May 1973. page 3.
Primary Roll of Honour:
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