William Robert McDonald

Died

12 August 1984

Age

Rank

Sergeant

Force

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died from the injuries he sustained eight days earlier when a terrorist time bomb, hidden in the ceiling of a classroom at Ulster Polytechnic, exploded during a lecture.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died from the injuries he sustained eight days earlier when a terrorist time bomb, hidden in the ceiling of a classroom at Ulster Polytechnic, exploded during a lecture.

Circumstances

Fatally injured by a terrorist bomb while attending a lecture on duty.

Died from the injuries he sustained eight days earlier when a terrorist time bomb, hidden in the ceiling of a classroom at Ulster Polytechnic, Jordanstown, County Antrim, exploded during a lecture. Inspector John Brian Martin and Sergeant Stephen Alexander Neville Fyfe died on the day of the explosion.