[FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, NOT TO GLAMORISE ANY VIOLENT ACTIONS]
A British Army Captain died trying to defuse an IRA bomb planted in Birmingham city on Highfield Road.[26][27] Captain Ronald Wilkinson (30) a member of the Hereford-based Royal Army Ordnance Corps Inspection and Disposal Unit was seriously injured when the bomb blew up in his face while trying to defuse it on the 17 September 1973, he died six days later in hospital on the 23 September. He was the first person to be killed directly from a Provisional IRA bomb planted in England

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