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'''Corporal P''' was a soldier in the Mortar Platoon of Support Company, [[1 Battalion, the Parachute Regiment]] on Bloody Sunday.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/volume01/chapter003/ The events of the day], Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.</ref> | '''Corporal P''' was a soldier in the Mortar Platoon of Support Company, [[1 Battalion, the Parachute Regiment]] on Bloody Sunday.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/volume01/chapter003/ The events of the day], Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.</ref> | ||
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| + | The Saville report concluded: | ||
| + | :: After Michael Kelly had been shot, William Nash, John Young and Michael McDaid were shot and killed at the rubble barricade. We are sure that [[Corporal P (Bloody Sunday)|Corporal P]] of Mortar Platoon, who had disembarked from [[Sergeant O (Bloody Sunday)|Sergeant O]]’s APC in Rossville Street, shot at least one of these casualties and may have been responsible for all three, though [[Lance Corporal J (Bloody Sunday)|Lance Corporal J]] of Anti-Tank Platoon may have shot one of them and we cannot eliminate the possibility that [[Corporal E (Bloody Sunday)|Corporal E]] was responsible for another. Corporal P fired from a position in Rossville Street north of the rubble barricade and south of the low walls of the Kells Walk ramp; while Lance Corporal J and Corporal E fired from a position at that ramp.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/volume01/chapter003/ The events of the day], Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.</ref> | ||
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| + | ==External Resources== | ||
| + | *[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/B/B576.pdf Corporal P Evidence], Bloody Sunday Inquiry. | ||
| + | *[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts353.htm Transcript Day 353], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 30 June 2003. | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 02:28, 8 May 2011
Corporal P was a soldier in the Mortar Platoon of Support Company, 1 Battalion, the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday.[1]
The Saville report concluded:
- After Michael Kelly had been shot, William Nash, John Young and Michael McDaid were shot and killed at the rubble barricade. We are sure that Corporal P of Mortar Platoon, who had disembarked from Sergeant O’s APC in Rossville Street, shot at least one of these casualties and may have been responsible for all three, though Lance Corporal J of Anti-Tank Platoon may have shot one of them and we cannot eliminate the possibility that Corporal E was responsible for another. Corporal P fired from a position in Rossville Street north of the rubble barricade and south of the low walls of the Kells Walk ramp; while Lance Corporal J and Corporal E fired from a position at that ramp.[2]
External Resources
- Corporal P Evidence, Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
- Transcript Day 353, Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 30 June 2003.
Notes
- ↑ The events of the day, Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.
- ↑ The events of the day, Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.
