The Troubles in Ballygawley

• 25 November 1975 - two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke and Patrick Maxwell, were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near Ballygawley, County Tyrone.

• 13 July 1983 - Ronald Alexander, John Roxborough, Oswald Neely and Thomas Harron, all Protestant members of the 6th Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol on Ballymackilroy Hill, near Ballygawley. See Ballygawley Land Mine Attack for more details.

• 7 December 1985 - William Clements and George Gilliland, both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were shot dead during a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Ballygawley Royal Ulster Constabulary base. See Attack on Ballygawley barracks for more detail.

• 20 August 1988 - Jayson Burfitt, Richard Greener, Mark Norsworthy, Stephen Wilkinson, Jason Winter, Blair Bishop, Alexander Lewis and Peter Bullock, all members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their coach at Curr, near Ballygawley. See Ballygawley bus bombing for more detail.