A memorial service with hundreds present has taken place at Hartshead Moor Services to mark the 50th anniversary of an IRA bombing of s coach carrying military personnel and their families on the M62 motorway.
The bomb which exploded killed killed 12 people,nine soldiers and three civilians and injured a further 38.
The coach was travelling from Manchester to the barracks at Catterick when the IRA bomb hidden in the luggage compartment of their coach exploded.
Members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, the Royal Artillery and Royal Corps of Signals died
Cpl Terence Griffin, 24, Gunner Leonard Godden, 22, Signalman Michael Waugh, 23, Signalman Leslie Walsh, 17, Signalman Paul Reid, 17, L/Cpl James McShane, 29, Fusilier Jack Hynes, 20, and Fusilier Stephen Whalley, 18, all died in the blast.
Cpl Clifford Haughton and his wife Linda, who were both 23, and the couple’s two sons Lee, five, and Robert, two, were also killed.
