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'''Private U''' 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>
 
'''Private U''' 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 Inquiry concluded:
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::We are sure that Private U, a member of Mortar Platoon who had taken up a position at the northern end of Block 1 of the Rossville Flats, fired at and mortally wounded Hugh Gilmour as the latter was running south (ie away from the soldiers) along the Rossville Street side of Block 1 of the Rossville Flats.<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==
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*[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/B/B748.pdf Private U evidence], Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
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*[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts369.htm Transcript Day 369], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 22 September 2003.
  
 
==Notes==
 
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Latest revision as of 15:45, 3 September 2012

Private U was a soldier in the Mortar Platoon of Support Company, 1 Battalion, the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday.[1]

The Saville Inquiry concluded:

We are sure that Private U, a member of Mortar Platoon who had taken up a position at the northern end of Block 1 of the Rossville Flats, fired at and mortally wounded Hugh Gilmour as the latter was running south (ie away from the soldiers) along the Rossville Street side of Block 1 of the Rossville Flats.[2]

External Resources

Notes

  1. The events of the day, Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.
  2. The events of the day, Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume I - Chapter 3, 2010.