Whilst i was looking in whitehavens cemetrey i came across this chap i wonder if any body can help with some details please it is a bad picture but the grave isn't very readable either but here are is details 24133580 sapper r hurst royal engineers died 17th may 1972 age 23
Michael, All I can add AFM Results Page Surname: HURST Forenames/Initials: Ronald Rank: Spr Service: Army Service Number: 24133580 Regiment/Corps: RE Date of Birth: 05 November 1946 Age: 25 Date of Death: 17 May 1972 Cemetery Name: Whitehaven Cemetery Cemetery Address: Whitehaven Cumberland Grave Section: 6 Grave Row: R Grave Number: 57 Included on Armed Forces Memorial: Yes Included on Roll of Honour: Yes
His first name was Ronald. AFM Results Page WAR MEMORIALS. Glos, Staffs, Cheshire, Derby & other counties - Great War Forum - Page 9 Sapper 24133580 Ronald HURST, 50th Field Squadron Royal Engineers. Killed in action 18th May 1972 age 25 while working on a perimeter fence which surrounds the joint army and police base in Crossmaglen , Northern Ireland
Old thread I know but just saw another member looking at it. just found this. Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1970-1979) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 17 May 1972: A British soldier was shot dead in an IRA sniper attack while repairing a damaged perimeter fence at Crossmaglen British Army base in County Armagh this too. http://www.nivetsannex.com/ROH/certs/M0552.pdf
Sapper Ronnie Hurst is a post-WW2 casualty. He is therefore commemorated on the AFM. This is the link to his page on the AFM website : AFM Results Page Sapper Ronnie Hurst was born on 5 November 1946. His funeral service was held at St Andrew's Church, Mirehouse, Whitehaven, followed by interment in Whitehaven Cemetery (Grave Ref. 6/R/57). ............ Another parishioner of St Andrew's, Mirehouse was later killed while serving in Northern Ireland: Corporal Jim Burney, KORBR. Cpl Jim Burney died on 19 December 1978. His funeral service was also held at St Andrew's Church followed by interment in Whitehaven Cemetery (Grave Ref. 6/A/99). This is the link to the AFM website page for Cpl. Jim Burney: AFM Results Page
We lost my new roommate at Crossmaglen on 17th May 1972, a quiet lad, Spr Ron Hurst had only been with us a week or so when he was shot dead working on a sanger. A Corporal was also shot and injured trying to rescue him. We were about the same age so he would have been 72 this year 2018. RIP Ron.
I was thinking of Ron today at the service on the Hoe as I do every year. Ron had the Bunkbed below mine in Dillon then moved off with 1 Tp to Crossmaglen. I was doing my HGV course would you believe delivering stores for a new sangar, I think, to this site with my instructor Pete Buick. Had not really got to know Ron he was indeed a quiet man as we shared a locker I helped to pack up his kit. RIP Ron, I will never forget.
Sorry John you will not remember me I was just a sprog ex pig then and troopie's driver for the Hat Humphries in 2Tp. Hope you are well my best mate Eddie G and I recall this period often. Stay safe.
I did my basic training with Ron Hurst at 1TRRE 87 training party in 1968. Good guy, good sense of humour - especially on one trip to the launderette in Cove. He was the first sapper to die in Northern Ireland at the hands of the Provisional IRA. Always remembered.