Gnr Clifford lLorring

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Today, 31/08/2011 is the 40th anniversary of the death of Gnr Clifford Lorring,25 RA, he did not come out to Belfast with us at first as he was only 17, he took the liverpool ferry on a Friday evening and arrived Saturday morning which was his 18th birthday,went straight to the bus depot in Anderson town. Sunday he went on his first op,a VCP, a sniper shot him in the head and he did not survive.
He would have been 58 now, maybe a grandad as I am. We will never forget you Cliff, RIP forever young.

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I may be wrong but I believe that this tragic incident was what sparked off the idea of forming the training unit in Ballykinler where all underage soldiers were sent on turning 18 for refresher training prior to joining their unit on ops.

R.I.P. ClIff.
Never forgotten.

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Didn't help Edmund Muller much in early 77, he turned 18, straight out to Ballykinler and on his last day prior to joining us, got shot dead whilst out being assessed with another unit. A load of us attended his memorial service in the GCH but no-one knew him as he'd just come out of Woolwich. Local lad from Donny.

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