“There hadn’t been one shot fired at them,” he said. “There hadn’t been one petrol bomb thrown at them. There hadn’t been one nail bomb thrown at them. They just jumped out, and with unbelievable murderous fury, shot into the fleeing crowd;” and 51-years-old Derryman, Francis McCloskey, living in Marlow, Slough, Buckinghamshire went to the headquarters of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in Belfast and handed in the eight medals he won during his five years’ service with the regiment. Here are a selection of photos from 1972 and 1997.
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A Mass card made by the Derry internees at Long Kesh is presented on their behalf by Mr. Frank Gogarty (right), former chairman of the NI Civil Rights Association, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Wray, Drumcliffe Avenue, parents of James Wray, one of the Bloody Sunday victims in 1972.
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Family members pictured at a Bloody Sunday memorial service at St. Mary’s Church, Creggan, on the 25th anniversary in 1997.
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Family members pictured at a Bloody Sunday memorial service at St. Mary’s Church, Creggan, on the 25th anniversary in 1997.
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Thirteen crosses laid outside the RUC station in Dungiven in 1972 in protest at the killings.
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Eamonn McCann addressing the hundreds of people who attended the rededication of the Bloody Sunday memorial in January 1997.
