What the records say
- When
- 1983
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 53.00° N, 8.00° W
- Description
- 1983 death
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Killing of Patrick Kelly
1983 death
Pte Patrick Kelly was an Irish Army private in the Defence Forces killed during the rescue of kidnapped supermarket executive Don Tidey. He was posthumously awarded the Military Star decoration.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Don Tidey was rescued in County Leitrim”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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