Gordon Hedley Crothers

Gordon Hedley Crothers

Died

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17 February 1978

Age

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31

Rank

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Reserve Constable

Force

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Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

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Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

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Off Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed alongside his wife and ten other civilians when a terrorist bomb exploded at La Mon House Restaurant in Comber, near Belfast, County Down.

Killed alongside his wife and ten other civilians when a terrorist bomb exploded at La Mon House Restaurant in Comber, near Belfast, County Down, with insufficient warning being given. The terrorists’ target was a meeting of RUC officers at the restaurant but they had the wrong date. The meeting had taken place exactly one week earlier.