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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
SEFF remembers RUCR Cons. Ivan Crawford, 49, married with 3 children, mechanic for BT & the Post Office, murdered by a 10lb PIRA bomb hidden in a telegraph pole litter bin outside a toy shop on 9/1/87.
Ivan was on foot patrol in Hg St, Enniskillen around 10:15pm when the bomb ...
..was detonated by remote control. Two other officers were slightly injured. Colleagues administered first aid but Ivan died almost immediately. All litter bins were removed from Enniskillen after the attack.
Ivan was a member of the Orange Order. A Masonic symbol was chosen ...
..for the Quilt as Ivan was very involved in Masonic matters across NI. He also had a great interest in playing Scottish Traditional Jimmy Shand style music with a 3 row Shand Marino Accordion. He enjoyed holidaying in Scotland with his family. He built his own caravanette ...
..camper van in which he took many years of enjoyment from but alas these years were cruelly cut short.

SEFF's thoughts and prayers are with the Crawford family today and everyday.

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Mon 17/1 marks the 30th Anniversary of a heinous terrorist attack upon men travelling home from work. The Teebane atrocity on the Cookstown-Omagh rd was the willful sectarian targeting of civilians by PIRA.
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The bus had been stopped by a man in combat uniform standing on the road flashing a torch. The workers assumed it was the Regular Army.
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