Linda Emmeline Baggley

Died

2 June 1976

Age

Rank

Reserve Constable

Force

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died ten days after being shot at close range by terrorist gunmen while on late-night foot patrol with a colleague in Chapel Road, Waterside, Londonderry.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died ten days after being shot at close range by terrorist gunmen while on late-night foot patrol with a colleague in Chapel Road, Waterside, Londonderry.

Circumstances

While on foot patrol duty with a colleague in Londonderry late at night on 23 May they were both shot at point blank range in a terrorist attack and she received gunshot wounds from which she later died.

Linda was shot less than 100 yards from where her father, William Raymond Baggley, also an RUC Reserve Constable, died in a similar attack on 29th January 1974.

Her colleague, Constable Kenneth William Sheehan, was wounded but survived but ten months later, on 8th April 1977, he and another Constable were killed when they were shot by terrorists.