Glasdrumman ambush

Glasdrumman ambush
Part of the Troubles
Date 17 July 1981 Location Glasdrumman, County Armagh 54°3′26.76″N 6°31′37.84″W / 54.0574333°N 6.5271778°W / 54.0574333; -6.5271778 Result IRA victory
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	United Kingdom British Army
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Lance Corporal Gavin Dean †
Strength
Up to 7 IRA members	18 soldiers
Casualties and losses
None	1 killed 1 wounded
class=notpageimage| Location within Northern Ireland

The Glasdrumman ambush was an attack by the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army observation post in Glasdrumman, County Armagh on 17 July 1981. An attempted ambush by the British Army on IRA members at a scrapyard southwest of Crossmaglen was itself ambushed, resulting in the death of one British soldier and the IRA retaining the ability to set up checkpoints in South Armagh.^[1]