February 1978: A Protestant civilian, Martha McAlpine (aged 69), was accidentally shot dead during an IRA attack from a passing van on a RUC foot patrol outside Seaview football ground, Shore Road, Skegoneill, Belfast. 7 February 1978: An off-duty UDR soldier, John Eaglesham (aged 58), was shot dead by the IRA while delivering mail, The Rock, near Pomeroy, County Tyrone. 8 February 1978: A UDR soldier, William Gordon (aged 39), and his 10-year-old daughter, Lesley Gordon, were killed by a bomb planted under their car outside their home in Maghera, County Londonderry. 17 February 1978: Twelve Protestant civilians were killed and 23 badly injured in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing, at Gransha near Belfast. 17 February 1978: British Lieutenant Colonel Ian Corden-Lloyd was killed and two other soldiers injured when the Gazelle helicopter he was travelling in was attacked by an IRA unit. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvers during the engagement. 26 February 1978: An IRA volunteer, Paul Duffy (aged 23), was shot dead by an undercover British Army unit at an arms cache in the yard of an unoccupied farmhouse Coagh/Ardboe area, County Tyrone. 28 February 1978: An RUC officer, Charles Simpson (aged 26), was shot dead in an IRA sniper attack on a RUC mobile patrol at junction of Clarendon and Francis streets, Rosemount, Derry. 1 March 1978: A British soldier, Paul Sheppard (aged 20), was killed in a machine gun attack on a British Army mobile patrol, Cliftonpark Avenue, Belfast. 3 March 1978: The IRA launched a gun attack on a British Army pedestrian checkpoint on Donegall Street, Belfast. A soldier, James Nowosad (aged 21), and a female civilian, Norma Spence (aged 25), who helped search female suspects, were shot dead. 4 March 1978: A British soldier, Nicholas Smith (aged 20), was killed by a booby-trap bomb in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Smith was killed while attempting to remove an Irish flag from a telegraph pole; the flag had been wired to a landmine below the pole and exploded when it was removed. 17 March 1978: An IRA unit and an SAS unit became embroiled in a gun battle in a field at Lisnamuck, near Maghera, County Londonderry. One British soldier, David Jones (aged 23), was shot dead in the battle. A prominent IRA member, Francis Hughes, was wounded and captured following the shootout. Hughes died on hunger strike in 1981. 14 April 1978: A UDR