Memorial to honour slain young UN peacekeeper

[B Inman]

Photo recalls soldiers' Congo sacrifice

The old photograph showing Corporal Michael Nolan (left) and Trooper Pat Mullins (right) with Trooper Jerry Llewellyn (centre) and two young Congolese boys
By Ralph Riegel
Monday August 08 2011
TWO young Irish UN peacekeepers pose happily with a colleague and two young Congolese boys.
The photograph shows the soldiers just weeks before they were killed in the Congo in 1961.
Trooper Pat Mullins (18) and Corporal Michael Nolan (22) died when their armoured car was ambushed in Katanga, a breakaway province of Congo on September 15, 1961.
Both fought bravely against overwhelming mercenary forces before being shot and killed.
Trooper Mullins's body was never recovered -- one of two Irish UN peacekeepers still 'missing in action'.
Read more

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/photo-recalls-soldiers-congo-sacrifice-2842294.html

[DeV]

I first heard this last year.... it isn't really highlighted by the DF, I had only heard of Pte Kevin Joyce

[hedgehog]

I first heard this last year.... it isn't really highlighted by the DF, I had only heard of Pte Kevin Joyce

I am the same- to my shame I never knew that his body was still missing.

[B Inman]

I first heard this last year.... it isn't really highlighted by the DF, I had only heard of Pte Kevin Joyce

I never heard of this until I read the Indo this morning. I served with a lot of guys who had been in the Congo but this incident was never mentioned.

[hptmurphy]

Book was published late late last year. Missing in Action.

Its a good read. I had only heard of him as one of the guys who contributed to the book served overseas with Mullins and championed the case in the past.

[Fianóglach]

Hi All

Some information and photographs on Tpr. Patrick Mullins's Memorial



http://curragh.proboards.com/index.c...lay&thread=724

[Truck Driver]

Photos of the ceremony...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfmagazine/sets/72157627553348851/