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Gordon Wilson Daughter

They were buried under bricks.

Gordon wilson daughter. The most famous story to emerge from the massacre was that of marie wilson a twenty year old girl who had been standing near the monument with her father gordon wilson. The pair were buried under rubble by a bomb detonated by the provisional ira. It was the latest tragedy to hit the wilson family.

Gordon wilson 25 september 1927 27 june 1995 was a draper in enniskillen county fermanagh who became known internationally as a peace campaigner during the troubles in northern ireland. It was 1987 and he and marie had been standing watching a peaceful remembrance day service in enniskillen northern ireland when a terrorist bomb went off. Gordon wilson recalls enniskillen bomb the day following the iras remembrance day bombing of enniskillen gordon wilson speaks of the loss of his daughter in the attack and his feelings toward.

We were both thrown forward rubble and stones and whatever in and around and over us and under us. On 8 november 1987 a bomb planted by the provisional ira exploded during enniskillens remembrance day parade injuring wilson and fatally injuring his daughter marie a nurse. His daughter marie died at his side in the remembrance day bombing which killed 11.

People in 1987 and his son peter died in a car crash. Gordon wilson on the loss of his daughter 1987 in november 1987 gordon wilson and his daughter marie 20 were attending a remembrance day service in enniskillen county fermanagh.