outside his home on Abercorn Road, Derry. 9 November 1976: A UDR soldier Lance Corporal Jimmy Spears (aged 46), a father of three, shot dead by two IRA gunmen as he worked off-duty at his garage in County Londonderry. 11 November 1976: A UDR soldier was shot dead by the IRA outside his home in Kilrea, County Londonderry. 11 November 1976: A former IRA quartermaster was shot dead inside a social club on Saul Street, Belfast. He allegedly gave information to the RUC under interrogation and was ordered to leave the district. It was reported he was shot for repeatedly returning to the district. 13 November 1976: A 35-year-old employee of the Ministry of Agriculture was forced by the IRA to drive a van packed with explosives into Magherafelt, County Londonderry, and to the Co-op on Union Street. Explosives partially neutralised by the British Army caused less damage than intended when the remainder exploded. 15 November 1976: During a rain storm in Lurgan, North Armagh, a four-man UDR foot patrol was ambushed in the town centre by IRA gunmen, one of whom was firing an American-supplied Armalite. Two soldiers were hit; one was a 19-year-old who later recovered in hospital, the other was 41-year-old Private George Lutton who died at the scene. 16 November 1976: A Catholic civilian, James Duffy (aged 48), was shot dead by a lone republican gunman on the Falls Road in an apparent case of mistaken identity. The man was shot in the back of the head as he chatted with a colleague while making a delivery to a butcher's shop. 18 November 1976: A UDR soldier was shot dead in an IRA attack in Altnagelvin, County Londonderry. 28 November 1976: The IRA accidentally killed two Catholic civilians in separate booby-trap bomb attacks on buildings being used as British Army observation posts. 16-year-old Philomena Green was killed as she passed a derelict house in Mary Street, Lurgan, County Armagh. She entered the house and switched on a light which triggered a bomb, killing her instantly. Shortly afterwards, 46-year-old father of ten Frank McConnellogue noticed a suspicious device in an alleyway (regularly used by on-patrol British soldiers) close to the Bluebell Bar on Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry. He rushed to warn two men who were stood nearby when the device exploded; the two men survived but McConnellogue was killed instantly. An IRA statement