Title:3RD REGIMENT ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY AT BESSBROOK MILL BARRACKS 20 FEBRUARY 1997 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFB 147
Other titles:NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at Bessbrook Mill Barracks, Armagh, soon after the shooting by the Provisional IRA of Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick.
Description: I. Interview with Major Mark Vincent of N Battery, Eagle Troop, Royal Horse Artillery (Stephen Restorick's regiment) about the impact which the killing has had.
II. Interview with Staff Sergeant Chris Paine, also of N Battery, and a friend of Stephen Restorick..
III. Memorials in the grounds of Bessbrook Mill Barracks - plaque commemorating Gunner Oldfield of 94 (New Zealand) Battery Royal Artillery, killed in Bessbrook 1 June 1992, memorial stone for several soldiers killed in South Armagh.
IV. Street scenes showing the entrance to Bessbrook Mill. Numerous bunches of flowers, left at the roadside near the vehicle checkpoint where Lance Bombardier Restorick had been shot. Close-ups of the flowers and some of their messages; also shot of soldier in full combat uniform posing beside them.
V. General views of Bessbrook village; war memorial, local bus, houses, green, soldiers on patrol.
Alternative Title:NORTHERN IRELAND ARMY INFORMATION SERVICES COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
