'˜We folded into each other's arms and cried after William died'
David Temple said his brother, William, was on his first ever milk delivery round but was killed along with eight others in the July 1972 atrocity.
He was speaking to the News Letter ahead of a special service for ‘Children of the Troubles’ in Fivemiletown Methodist Church this Sunday. The event is the annual service for South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF) which will see a new memorial quilt unveiled featuring special patches dedicated to murdered young people.
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Hide AdDavid said: “William got through the first bomb, he got cut by the second and he walked straight into the third.”
He added: “My happiest memories of William were playing cricket and football together. We enjoyed fishing together. We were a good family growing.”
His family had four brothers and three sisters. Their uncle broke the news to them. “We just looked at each other and folded into each others’ arms and cried as a family.”
David will be travelling to the service on Sunday. “I like to see these quilts being dedicated so that the past can never be rewritten,” he said.
A patch previously dedicated to his brother showed the scene of his death, a football and cricket bat.