Fusilier M. J. Sampson - Onchan, Isle of Man.
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A memorial plaque for Fusilier M. J. Sampson located on the Onchan Parish War Memorial.
Waymark Code: WM12TGW
Location: Isle of Man
Date Posted: 07/13/2020
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A memorial plaque to Fusilier M. J. Sampson located on the Onchan Parish War Memorial in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church.
The small rectangular sandstone plaque is mounted to the left of the tablets in remembrance of those who lost their lives in WWII 1939 -1945 and is mounted upon a Manx stone wall.
The plaque is inscribed as follows:
'FUSILIER
M.J. SAMPSON
22ND NOVEMBER 1975,
AGED 20. KILLED IN ULSTER
IN THE LINE OF DUTY'"Fusilier Michael Sampson was killed in the Drummuckavall Ambush, County Armagh, on 22nd November 1975.
The Drummuckavall Ambush was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on a British Army observation post southeast of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, along the border with the Republic of Ireland, resulting in the deaths of three British Soldiers" (
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