Sergeant Alastair Slater, MM (25 July 1956 – 2 December 1984) was a British Army soldier who served in 'B' Squadron, Air (7) Troop, 22 Special Air Service (SAS),Mars & Minerva, Special Air Service Regimental Journal Magazine, Issue 7, Volume 2 1995 who was killed on 2 December 1984 in a confrontation with the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Kesh, a village in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.Tom Read, Freefall, pp. 158–66 (Little Brown, Edition 1, 1998). .Tírghrá, National Commemoration Centre, 2002; p. 264Baptism of Fire: The Astonishing True Story of a Man of God; /, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 15 November 2015. The operation led to the deaths of Provisional Irish Republican Army Volunteers Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde and Kieran Fleming, and the arrest of the others. The IRA members had been attempting to ambush a Royal Ulster Constabulary police car with a land mine at the time. Slater was posthumously awarded the Military Medal for his role in the action.
Prior to joining the SAS, Slater was a member of 1 Para. He appeared in the 1982 British TV documentary The Paras as one of the instructors of a group of Parachute Regiment recruits undertaking their basic training. The programme began filming just prior to the Falklands War.
Slater was one of four SAS soldiers to be killed during The Troubles.Mike Ryan, , books.google.co.uk; accessed 15 November 2015.
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