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57 Mortimer Street,
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DE24 8FX

Email: membership@nivets.org.uk
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February 8th 1978

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  • February 8th 1978

    William Gordon, 41, married 3 children - school attendance officer /
    L/Cpl (Part-time) 5UDR

    Lesley Gordon, 10, schoolgirl


    "Willy had reversed his car out the driveway of his home at Grove Terrace, Maghera, to take his 10 year old daughter Lesley and his seven year old son to school. As he drove the car forward a piece of fishing line attached to the tyre air valve of the front wheel was pulled, triggering a device placed in the wheel arch of his Ford Escort.

    Willy and Lesley were both killed instantly. His son was badly injured and subsequently lost an eye.

    His car had been parked outside his house all night, and Willy had been seen to check beneath his car for devices. Fishing line of the type used is very difficult to detect, as was the device where the it had been placed.

    The Belfast Telegraph reported: "The children of Culnady Primary School bowed their heads in prayer today, and thanked God for the "serenity and lovingness" which he had bestowed on little Lesley Gordon.
    Seconds later her name was struck off the register.""

    (exerpt from 'Lost Lives')

    The South Derry ASU led by Francis Hughes was believed to be responsible for this attack. Hughes was the second prisoner to die on the Hunger Strike in 1981. Most of his ASU are thought to be dead.

    Rest peaceful, together.

  • #2
    Sadness beyond words

    We Will Remember Them

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    • #3
      We Will Remember Them

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      • #4
        We shall remember them .

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        • #5
          RIP.

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          • #6
            We Will Remember Them


            bobc........

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            • #7
              Lest we forget

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              • #8
                we will rember them

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                • #9
                  Lest We Forget

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                  • #10
                    As with every year, we remember our fallen comrade and his daughter.
                    Our thoughts also are with the rest of his family, who were also victims that day.

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                    • #11
                      rememberance

                      We who survive will never forget them, I hope you do not feel this innapppropriate, if so srub it,
                      May those responsible rot in eternal damnation, maybe I get upset as a bomb survivor but those who do it are the worst cowards,
                      Do you know how the boy is now ?
                      Spanners do it with their tools.

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                      • #12
                        Unimaginable horror.
                        Rest in peace together.

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                        • #13
                          We will remember them.

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