Bob Bacon
11-12-2006, 22:16
http://rwf-forum.co.uk//vBulletin/images/misc/poppy.jpgFusilier McCarthy was killed by PIRA on the 21st June 1972, whilst on main gate duty at Strand Rd Police Stn Londonderry. He was killed by a single shot to the chest, fired from a rooftop sniper position, above a busy shopping area.
From Merthyr Tydfil, and a member of D Company 1 RWF, Fusilier McCarthy was married and his wife was living in married quarters in Northern Ireland at the time of his death.
In February 1974, his widow was awarded agreed damages of £1000. During the inquest Fusilier McCarthy’s mother told the coroner “Kerry had not minded the thought of going to Ulster, but when he arrived, he wrote to say he hated it.
She went on to say that she thought Kerry had some sort of foreboding of his death. She stated “As my daughter-in-law was clearing his quarters she found a poem he had written as if he expected to die”.
Sources:
RWF Regimental Records Vol 7 IBSN 0 9525408 9 4
Lost Lives IBSN 1 84018 227 X
From Merthyr Tydfil, and a member of D Company 1 RWF, Fusilier McCarthy was married and his wife was living in married quarters in Northern Ireland at the time of his death.
In February 1974, his widow was awarded agreed damages of £1000. During the inquest Fusilier McCarthy’s mother told the coroner “Kerry had not minded the thought of going to Ulster, but when he arrived, he wrote to say he hated it.
She went on to say that she thought Kerry had some sort of foreboding of his death. She stated “As my daughter-in-law was clearing his quarters she found a poem he had written as if he expected to die”.
Sources:
RWF Regimental Records Vol 7 IBSN 0 9525408 9 4
Lost Lives IBSN 1 84018 227 X