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The Guildford pub bombings occurred on 5 October 1974 when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two 6-pound (2.7-kilogram) gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford, Surrey, England. The pubs were targeted because they were popular with British Army personnel stationed at Pirbright barracks. Four soldiers and one civilian were ...
- 5 (4 off-duty British soldiers and 1 civilian)
- 5 October 1974, 20:30 – 21:00 (BST)
- British Army soldiers
Jul 21, 2022 · The Guildford pub bombings in 1974 killed five and injured 65 and led to one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice when the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were jailed. An IRA unit later ...
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Jan 31, 2019 · Getty Images. Five people died in the blast at the Horse & Groom on 5 October 1974. The bomb attacks took place on 5 October 1974, in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford ...
The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly Irish, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974, [1] and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974. All the convictions were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice, and the cases, along with ...
Jul 21, 2022 · By Tanya Gupta. BBC News. Four soldiers and a civilian died in the Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974. Pen portraits were read out for each person at a resumed inquest into the deaths. The ...
Jan 31, 2019 · The bomb attacks took place on 5 October 1974, in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford, Surrey. Soldiers Ann Hamilton, 19, Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, and John ...
Jul 21, 2022 · The Guildford pub bombings in 1974 killed five and injured 65 and led to one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice when the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were jailed. An IRA unit later ...
