{"id":13492,"date":"2015-01-21T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2024-07-20T13:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:23:30","slug":"the-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=13492","title":{"rendered":"The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a park, the terrorist kill.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Like many Veterans I have a picture or two, in my mind and on paper too, even this new-fangled thing, the computer memories back did bring, memories I had tried forgetting.<\/div>\n
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I see a bandstand blown apart, I see horses near a park, I see musicians playing for people\u2019s joy, dead horses in the street like a rag doll toy, people I knew in the flash of heat and light, like the horses, terrorist ended the lives.<\/div>\n
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The pictures are in black and white, bodies of horses and musicians such strong remembered sights, the blood is black not life\u2019s red, there is no picture of in a woman\u2019s lap, a soldiers head.<\/div>\n
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There is no sound of the animals fear and pain, or the sudden stop of the music, the sound of death and the musician\u2019s again, nor can you hear the screams, of the people in the street and the bandstand scene.<\/div>\n
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Seven horses died that day, four of their riders also passed away, Hyde Park on a summer\u2019s day, 30lb (14kg) of nails in a car, a bomb, cowards at play, the nails to rip through flesh and bone, they didn\u2019t care, they left the bomb then went home.<\/div>\n
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Not happy with just one, the cowards had another bomb, two hours later a band did play, Regents Park the same summers day, lunch time concert for the people to enjoy, music from Oliver, to over a hundred people or more.<\/div>\n
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They had crawled on the bellies under the stand; they knew all that would be there were musicians, a band, a bomb they laid with one thing in mind, what they term a spectacular, for the media something grand.<\/div>\n
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Terrorist murdered seven more, men of music the people did applaud, innocently doing their job, thirty musicians a soft target on the terrorist log, not one carried a gun, in times of need medics they become.<\/div>\n
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Now these terrorist walk our streets, only one faced our courts and did not stay free, though eventually he was released, along with another, bad handling by the police.<\/div>\n
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Now all these terrorist walk our street, they are not freedom fighters as a politician bleats, freedom fighters took the oath, to queens and country, politicians and lawyers should take note, time to defend those who gave a blank cheque, to fight and die for their country, this persecution, none of us did expect, stop it now, before there\u2019s no time left to regret.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Derrick W Sole, 2016<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Lest We Forget<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

WOII. G.Barker, SJT. R.Livinstone, Cpl. J.McKnight, <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bdsm. J.Heritage, <\/strong>Bdsm. K.Powell, <\/strong>Bdsm. L.Smith, Bdsm. G.Mesure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0263\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Regents Park Band Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n

20th July 1982<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 RGJ Band formation <\/strong><\/p>\n

W01 Bandmaster David Little<\/p>\n

Flute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bdsm David Cross<\/p>\n

Oboe<\/p>\n

Cpl John Morey<\/p>\n

Clarinets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cpl Mick Weston<\/p>\n

L\/Cpl Steve Elliot<\/p>\n

L\/Cpl Christopher Clifford<\/p>\n

L\/Cpl Dave Ward<\/p>\n

( Bdsm Keith “Cosy” Powell )<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bdsm Paul Palmer<\/p>\n

Bdsm Colin Wolfendale<\/p>\n

Bdsm Cliff Mann<\/p>\n

Alto Sax<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sjt Bob Williams<\/p>\n

Tenor Sax<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bdsm Tony Browbank<\/p>\n

French Horn<\/strong><\/p>\n

( Cpl “Doc” Livinstone )<\/strong><\/p>\n

( Cpl Johnny McKnight )<\/strong><\/p>\n

( Bdsm Larry Smith )<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coronets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sjt Tony Dowd<\/p>\n

Cpl John Mitchell<\/p>\n

Bdsm Steve Kavanagh<\/p>\n

Bdsm Chris Selley<\/p>\n

Bdsm Paul “Sid” Lawrence<\/p>\n

Trombones<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sjt Leith Lewis<\/p>\n

Sjt Darryl Sheil<\/p>\n

Bdsm Andy Cummins<\/p>\n

Euphonium<\/strong><\/p>\n

( W0II (BSM) Graham Barker )<\/strong><\/p>\n

( Bdsm George Mesure )<\/strong><\/p>\n

Basses<\/strong><\/p>\n

L\/Cpl Paul Mason<\/p>\n

Bdsm Ian Lynch<\/p>\n

Percussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cpl David Timms<\/p>\n

( Bdsm John Heritage )<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Band who Played on this Tragic Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings<\/strong> occurred on the 20th of July in 1982 in London. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two bombs during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park, both in central London.<\/p>\n

The explosions killed 11 military personnel: four soldiers of the Blues & Royals at Hyde Park, and seven bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets at Regent’s Park. Seven of the Blues and Royals’ horses also died in the attack. One seriously injured horse, Sefton, survived and was subsequently featured on television programmes and was awarded “Horse of the Year”. Sefton’s rider suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and in 2012 committed suicide after killing his two children.<\/p>\n

In the year of 1987, Gilbert “Danny” McNamee was convicted of making the Hyde Park bomb and jailed for 25 years. He served 12 years before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement; his conviction was later quashed. In the year of 2013, John Downey was charged with four counts of murder in relation to the Hyde Park attack; his trial began in the January of 2014 but collapsed the following month after a ruling upon a letter sent to him by police assuring him that he would not be prosecuted over the attack. No one has ever been charged in connection with the Regent’s Park bombing.<\/p>\n

Hyde Park bomb<\/strong><\/p>\n