Billy Reid (Irish Republican)
William "Billy" Reid (1 January 1939 – 15 May 1971) was a volunteer and Staff Officer in C Company, Third Battalion of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Reid was responsible for the death of the first British Army soldier killed in The Troubles and was later killed as he attempted another ambush of British Army personnel.
Read more about Billy Reid (Irish Republican): Background, Shooting of Gunner Curtis, Death, Memorial
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““Although I’d lie lapped up in linen
A deal I’d sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the neighbours,”
Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)