Post war grave stone 1972 Sapper Ronald Hurst, Whitehaven Cemetery

Whilst i was looking in whitehavens cemetrey i came across this chap i wonder if any body can help with some details please
it is a bad picture but the grave isn't very readable either but here are is details

24133580 sapper
r hurst
royal engineers
died 17th may 1972
age 23

 

Thanks diane and owen i knew i would get an answer brilliant over the moon with that
regards michael

 

Cheers Owen for the latest find.
One of my earliest threads.

Michael.

 

Sapper Ronnie Hurst is a post-WW2 casualty. He is therefore commemorated on the AFM. This is the link to his page on the AFM website :

AFM Results Page

Sapper Ronnie Hurst was born on 5 November 1946.

His funeral service was held at St Andrew's Church, Mirehouse, Whitehaven, followed by interment in Whitehaven Cemetery (Grave Ref. 6/R/57).

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Another parishioner of St Andrew's, Mirehouse was later killed while serving in Northern Ireland: Corporal Jim Burney, KORBR. Cpl Jim Burney died on 19 December 1978. His funeral service was also held at St Andrew's Church followed by interment in Whitehaven Cemetery (Grave Ref. 6/A/99).

This is the link to the AFM website page for Cpl. Jim Burney:

AFM Results Page

 

We lost my new roommate at Crossmaglen on 17th May 1972, a quiet lad, Spr Ron Hurst had only been with us a week or so when he was shot dead working on a sanger. A Corporal was also shot and injured trying to rescue him. We were about the same age so he would have been 72 this year 2018. RIP Ron.

 

More info on Ron: Armagh Concerned British Citizens

 

And more, screen 94-97:
www.whitehavenparish.org.uk/content/pages/documents/1486312532.doc

 

I was the Corporal I'm 73 now I was 26 then.

 

I was thinking of Ron today at the service on the Hoe as I do every year. Ron had the Bunkbed below mine in Dillon then moved off with 1 Tp to Crossmaglen. I was doing my HGV course would you believe delivering stores for a new sangar, I think, to this site with my instructor Pete Buick. Had not really got to know Ron he was indeed a quiet man as we shared a locker I helped to pack up his kit. RIP Ron, I will never forget.

 

Sorry John you will not remember me I was just a sprog ex pig then and troopie's driver for the Hat Humphries in 2Tp. Hope you are well my best mate Eddie G and I recall this period often. Stay safe.

 

I did my basic training with Ron Hurst at 1TRRE 87 training party in 1968. Good guy, good sense of humour - especially on one trip to the launderette in Cove. He was the first sapper to die in Northern Ireland at the hands of the Provisional IRA. Always remembered.