fire on his car as he arrived home. Although the Sutton Database lists him as a civilian, Lost Lives lists him as a UVF member and notes that he had received a two-year suspended sentence for handling ammunition which he was said to have bought from a UDR soldier. His son was wounded in the attack and died on 25 October 1976. 16 October 1976: Garda Michael Clerkin was killed in a booby-trap bomb attack in Mountmellick, County Laois. 16 October 1976: Three IRA volunteers died when a bomb they were transporting exploded accidentally at Belfast Gas Works. 24 October 1976: Two British soldiers were killed when an IRA sniper team ambushed a British patrol in Ardoyne, Belfast. 26 October 1976: A UDR soldier was shot dead at his workplace on Eglish Street, Armagh town. 28 October 1976: A UDR soldier was killed in an IRA gun-attack in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. 2 November 1976: 26-year-old RUC detective DC Noel McCabe shot dead by the IRA on the Falls Road, Belfast. He was later posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. 2 November 1976: A RUC officer shot by the IRA at Fintona, County Tyrone as he alighted his patrol car in the town's main street; he survived the attack. 2 November 1976: A RUC reservist was seriously injured when a booby-trapped device planted by the IRA exploded in his lorry at Grange Park, Balleygawley. 3 November 1976: A Protestant businessman and former B-Special, Samuel McConnell (aged 59), was shot dead by the IRA at his home in Dunrod, County Antrim. 3 November 1976: a Protestant civilian, Georgina Strain (aged 50), was shot dead by the IRA at her home on Hogarth Street in the Tiger Bay area of North Belfast; the reason is unknown. 6 November 1976: A former RUC sergeant now working for the force as an office manager lost both legs when the IRA left a booby-trapped device attached to the garage door of his house in Newry, County Down. 7 November 1976: 40 people injured by a 500lbs bomb planted by the IRA in a stolen car. Exploded outside the Raglan Bar, Queen Street, Ballymena, County Antrim. 7 November 1976: Two British soldiers seriously injured by an IRA landmine which caught two armoured vehicles at Donagh, County Fermanagh. 7 November 1976: 33-year-old UDR soldier Lance Corporal Winston McCaughey, a father of two, was shot dead by the IRA