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Sergeant Alistair Slater MM (25 July 1956 – 2 December 1984) Alistair was a British Army soldier who served in B Squadron, Air (7) Troop, 22 Special Air Service〔''Mars & Minerva'', Special Air Service Regimental Journal Magazine, Issue 7, Volume 2 1995〕 who was killed on 2 December 1984 while on operations against the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Kesh, County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.〔Tom Read, Freefall, pp. 158-66 (Little Brown, Edition 1, 1998). ISBN 0-316-64303-3.〕〔''Tírghrá'', National Commemoration Centre, 2002; ISBN 0-9542946-0-2 p. 264〕〔''Baptism of Fire: The Astonishing True Story of a Man of God''; ISBN 0-552-14582-3/ISBN 0-385-40916-8〕〔(CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths ), cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 15 November 2015.〕 The operation led to the deaths of Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde and Kieran Fleming and the arrest of the other two members of the four man unit. The IRA men had been attempting to bomb an RUC police car. 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. Slater was one of four SAS soldiers to be killed during the Troubles.〔Mike Ryan, (Secret Operations of the SAS ), books.google.co.uk; accessed 15 November 2015.〕 ==See also== *Charles "Nish" Bruce 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alistair Slater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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