Alistair Slater, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlistair Slater
British soldier
Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1956
Place of Birth: Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Dec-1984
Profession: actor
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Alistair Slater
- Sergeant Alistair 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), 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.
- 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.
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