Davy Fogel continued to instruct the new UDA recruits in military tactics and gave lectures on Army and police interrogation methods and urban guerrilla fighting.
24 Facts About Davy Fogel
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Davy Fogel was the second-in-command to the WDA's leader and the UDA's first commander, Charles Harding Smith.
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Davy Fogel was the leader of the UDA's B Company, 2nd Battalion, West Belfast Brigade and enjoyed much prestige in 1972, having erected the first UDA street barricades and roadblocks in Woodvale.
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Davy Fogel left the organisation early in 1973 after he was ousted from power during an internal feud.
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Davy Fogel was born in London, England and first arrived in Northern Ireland as a private in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1965.
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Davy Fogel worked as a machinist in Mackie's engineering plant until he was made redundant in 1970.
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Davy Fogel first became involved in the loyalist vigilante group the Woodvale Defence Association in late June 1970 at a meeting held in a pigeon fanciers' club on Leopold Street just off the Crumlin Road.
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Davy Fogel had gone to the meeting following the Battle of St Matthew's.
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When Davy Fogel interrupted the meeting, shouting out that "talk was not enough", the WDA's leader Charles Harding Smith asked him to "put some order" into the men and give them military training.
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Davy Fogel took up Harding Smith's suggestion and quickly became his second-in-command.
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Davy Fogel enjoyed the important position he held within the WDA, acknowledging that he "walked around the streets with the power of life and death over people".
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Davy Fogel continued to train the new recruits to the local Woodvale UDA unit, of which there were many.
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Davy Fogel took control of west Belfast during Harding Smith's absence, and became leader of the UDA's B Company which covered the Woodvale area.
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Davy Fogel had been a strong advocate of sealing off streets linking to nationalist areas and in July 1972 advocated shutting off Ainsworth Avenue even though it would have meant some fifty Catholic families living on the street would be cut off from the Springfield Road and held within the Shankill.
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Davy Fogel later described his role within the UDA during 1972 as having been a "bit of a policeman, magistrate and welfare worker".
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Davy Fogel often presided over unofficial UDA courts where local offenders from the community were tried.
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Davy Fogel had been killed by a shotgun blast to the face.
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Rumours circulated that Elliott had been killed because he was a Marxist, something frowned upon in loyalism, and Davy Fogel confirmed that Elliott had been a keen reader of the works of Che Guevara.
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Davy Fogel was taken outside by a local UDA member and the two had a fight over the gun.
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Davy Fogel believed he was being set up by his associates and before long Harding Smith moved against him.
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Davy Fogel was accused of embezzling funds from the UDA by Harding Smith, who claimed that a senior Army officer had warned him that Davy Fogel was, in some unspecified manner, a danger to the UDA and an informer.
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Davy Fogel was even taken into custody by Harding Smith's men for a three-hour period during which he was warned that he must leave the Shankill.
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When Tommy Herron, the formidable East Belfast brigadier and the UDA's vice-chairman and spokesman, appeared on the scene to challenge Harding Smith's leadership, Davy Fogel was ousted from his position of power.
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Immediately before he left, Davy Fogel had been summond to a "meeting" in an East Belfast UDA club and decided to leave before it was due to take place, fearing he would be walking into an ambush.