On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings.

Mar 19, 2018 · The unmarked car’s two occupants – British army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes – were pulled out and savagely attacked: stripped, kicked in the head, beaten, stabbed, thrown over a wall...

Sep 18, 2016 · During his training to work in surveillance in Northern Ireland, Sean Hartnett was given the inside story from British Intelligence of how Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were killed by the...

Mar 19, 2018 · A new documentary examines the savage 1988 killings that brought the North to the brink The car containing two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, as it drove into a funeral ...

Mar 29, 2013 · It happened 25 years ago on Wednesday, March 19, 1988, when two British soldiers in plain clothes — Corporals David Wood and Derek Howes of the Royals Corps of Signals — blundered into the...

The corporals killings was the killing of British Army corporals David Howes and Derek Wood by the Provisional IRA on 19 March 1988 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The out-of-uniform soldiers were killed after driving a car into the funeral procession of an IRA member.

Three days later, two British Army corporals drove into the funeral procession of one of the Milltown victims. The non-uniformed soldiers were dragged from their car by an angry crowd, beaten and then shot dead by the IRA, in what became known as the corporals killings.

On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings.

Mar 19, 2018 · David Howes (23) and Derek Wood (24) - both corporals in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals - were undercover officers wearing plain clothes when they died.

Mar 14, 1998 · The last minutes of the lives of two British army corporals who drove into the funeral cortege of an IRA man in west Belfast on March 19th, 1988, were captured on TV cameras and the pictures...