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Captain General Enrique José O’Donnell
The besieging Spanish force at Pamplona was commanded by Captain General Enrique José O'Donnell (b. 1769, d. 1834), a Spanish general descended from the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell. The ‘Flight of the Wild Geese’ was the departure in December 1691 of the Irish Jacobite army commanded by General Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, from Ireland to France. This had been agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691.
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Wednesday 28 May 1986
Corporal David Brian Brown QGM was an ammunition and explosive search dog handler with the 3rd Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment. He and his dog were killed by a terrorist explosive device during a search operation in Kilkeel on 28 May 1986.
He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal posthumously and the notification was published in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 14 April 1987; the background to his award included the following:
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On this day
28 May
Wednesday 28 May 1986
Corporal David Brian Brown QGM was an ammunition and explosive search dog handler with the 3rd Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment. He and his dog were killed by a terrorist explosive device during a search operation in Kilkeel on 28 May 1986.
He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal posthumously and the notification was published in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 14 April 1987; the background to his award included the following:
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28 May
Wednesday 28 May 1986
Corporal David Brian Brown QGM was an ammunition and explosive search dog handler with the 3rd Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment. He and his dog were killed by a terrorist explosive device during a search operation in Kilkeel on 28 May 1986.
He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal posthumously and the notification was published in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 14 April 1987; the background to his award included the following:
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