Kesh ambush

Kesh ambush
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
Drumrush Lodge, close to where the ambush took place
Date 2 December 1984 Location Kesh, County Fermanagh Northern Ireland 54°31′19.2″N 7°43′22.8″W / 54.522000°N 7.723000°W / 54.522000; -7.723000 Result British victory IRA ambush thwarted
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	UK British Army (SAS)
Commanders and leaders
Kieran Fleming	Lance Corporal Alistair Slater  †
Strength
4 IRA volunteers	unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed (1 died from drowning) 2 captured	1 killed
class=notpageimage| Kesh shown inside Northern Ireland

On 2 December 1984, a four-man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit was ambushed by a British Army Special Air Service team while attempting to bomb a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol who they had lured to Drumrush Lodge Restaurant. Two IRA volunteers and one SAS soldier were killed during the action. ^[1]