Robert Nairac

Military Person

1948 – 1977

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Who was Robert Nairac?

Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC was a British Army officer who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. He was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1979.

A number of claims have been made about both Nairac's involvement in the killing of an IRA member and his collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, however he was never charged.

Whilst several men have been imprisoned for his death, the whereabouts of his body remains unknown.

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Born
Aug 31, 1948
Mauritius
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Trinity College, Dublin
  • Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Died
May 15, 1977
Republic of Ireland

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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