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Kenneth Salvesen

Age: 28

Sex: male

Date: 17 Dec 1983

Place: Harrods, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, London

Philip Geddes, Jasmine Cochrane-Patrick, Kenneth Salvesen, Noel Lane, Jane Arbuthnot and Stephen Dodd died in a 20lb bomb attack outside Harrods in Hans Crescent, London on Saturday 17 December 1983.

The bomb was planted in a 1972 blue Austin 1300 GT four-door saloon car and exploded about 1.21pm. The IRA had sent a warning at 12.44pm, but no action was taken alough at the time it went off a police car with four policemen in it an a policeman on foot with a dog were approaching it. 


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see en.wikipedia.org

see BBC

see Imperial War Museum

see Youtube

see The Police Memorial Trust

see Daily Mirror - Thursday 15 November 1984

see Daily Express - Tuesday 18 December 1984

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 19 December 1983

see Stamford Mercury - Friday 23 December 1983

see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 21 December 1983

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 25 June 1984

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Wednesday 21 December 1983

see Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 22 December 1983