EOD Furminger, Richard A. James

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Furminger ​

• FORENAME

Richard A. James ​

• UNIT

321 EOD Unit, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Royal Artillery, attached) ​

• RANK

Gunner ​

• NUMBER

24391791 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

2nd August 1979 ​

• AGE

19 ​

• GRAVESITE

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• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Colchester, Essex​

single​

born 9.9.1959​

killed by IRA landmine, Armagh to Moy road, County Armagh, Northern Ireland ​

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24391791 Gunner Richard Amos James Furminger killed a month before his 20th birthday when an IRA landmine exploded in a culvert under the road near the border in Armagh. The team were returning to their base in Lurgan as part of an EOD team convoy travelling along the B115 Kilymaddy to Armagh when the explosion occurred.