Declan Arthurs was a Volunteer in the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade in the mid-1980s.
12 Facts About Declan Arthurs
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Declan Arthurs was killed in the Loughgall ambush, after bombing an RUC base.
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Declan Arthurs was born in Galbally, County Tyrone on 28 October 1965.
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Declan Arthurs was one of six children, and the fourth of Paddy and Amelia Arthurs.
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Declan Arthurs worked as an agricultural contractor for the farm.
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Declan Arthurs joined the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional IRA in 1982 in the wake of Martin Hurson's death on the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
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Declan Arthurs took part in two of the Provisional IRA's biggest attacks of the 1980s.
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Declan Arthurs was a key member of the team who drove a digger past a security fence, stopped it outside the barracks, lit a fuse, ran to safety and wrecked the barracks with a 200lb bomb in the JCB Digger.
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Declan Arthurs was killed along with seven other Provisional IRA Volunteers who were ambushed by the SAS during the Loughgall Ambush.
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One of the photos of the aftermath of the ambush shows that Declan Arthurs died with the Zippo lighter he used to light the fuse still in his hand.
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Declan Arthurs died for his country and I'm very proud of him.
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Declan Arthurs is buried in St John's Cemetery, Galbally beside IRA Volunteer Seamus Donnelly who died in the Loughgall ambush.