Lance Corporal A. I. Slater, MM - St Mary - Ashley, Northamptonshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial tablet in St Mary's church, Ashley, dedicated to Lance Corporal Alistair Slater, MM, killed in 'The Troubles' in 1984. The memorial consists of a landscape orientated incised slate tablet fixed immediately below the Ashley WW1 Memorial.

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ALASTAIR I SLATER MM 22 SAS 2 DEC 1984 NI

"Sergeant Alistair Slater, MM (25 July 1956 – 2 December 1984) was a British Army soldier who served in 'B' Squadron, Air (7) Troop, 22 Special Air Service (SAS), who was killed on 2 December 1984 in a confrontation with the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Kesh, a village in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The operation led to the deaths of Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde and Kieran Fleming, and the arrest of the others. The IRA members had been attempting to ambush a Royal Ulster Constabulary police car with a land mine at the time. Slater was posthumously awarded the Military Medal for his role in the action.

Prior to joining the SAS, Slater was a member of 1 Para. He appeared in the 1982 British TV documentary The Paras as one of the instructors of a group of Parachute Regiment recruits undertaking their basic training. The programme began filming just prior to the Falklands War. (visit link)

Slater was one of four SAS soldiers to be killed during The Troubles."

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