My young comrade died in my arms.
It would be immoral if those soldiers who survived were now betrayed, says former Special Forces soldier supporting Daily Mail campaign.
A Former Special Forces Soldier In Northern Ireland shares his experience as 21-year-old Second Lieutenant leading a patrol on the streets of West Belfast.
A day after the 1983 General Election at which Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was elected as an MP for the first time, a cowardly terrorist lying in wait for the patrol.
He used a ‘command wire’ to trigger a 15lb bomb concealed in a lamppost beside a wall. Private Geoff Curtis — just 20 years old — took the full force of the blast. He died in the Second Lieutenant’s arms.
No one has ever been charged with this atrocity.
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