The Troubles in Rosslea

1972

• 2 June 1972 - Victor Husband and Brian Robertson, both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their foot patrol, near Rosslea.

  1977

• 12 May 1977 - Douglas Deering, the last Protestant shopkeeper in Rosslea murdered by gunmen who entered his store. The killing remains unclaimed but is believed to having been part of Provisional Irish Republican Army ethnic cleansing in the area.

  1980

• 11 February 1980 - Joseph Rose and Winston Howe, both members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol on Lisnaskea Road, near Rosslea.

  1986

• 26 April 1986 - Seamus McElwaine, a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Knockacullion, near Scotstown, County Monaghan, was shot dead by the SAS.
• 8 July 1986 - John McVitty, father of three off-duty Royal Ulster Constabulary policeman shot dead in front of his son whilst cutting rushes on a farm neighbouring his own. The Fermanagh group Provisional Irish Republican Army killers then crossed the Republic of Ireland border less than 400 yards away.

  1989

• 13 December 1989 - Michael Paterson and James Houston, both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun, grenade and bomb attack on the permanent British Army Vehicle Check Point at Derryard, near Rosslea.