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'LEST WE
FORGET' TROOPER PAT MULLINS
Tpr Mullins and Cpl Nolan - Congo 1961 Tpr Mullins
In this article, Brig Gen Paul Pakenham tells us of the back- ground and findings of a De- fence Forces research team set up to enquire into the events surrounding the death of Trooper Pat Mullins, 35 Inf Bn ONUC, who was killed in action on 16 September 1961, and whose remains have never been found.
In 1960, the newly independent Republic of the Congo was threatened by mutinous armed forces, a Belgian military intervention and increasing disorder. In July 1960, the Security Council established the United Nations Operation in the Congo – ONUC in order to ensure the withdrawal of Belgian forces, to assist the government in maintaining law and order and to provide technical assistance. During the period January 1961 through March 1962, Lt Gen Seán McK- eown DSM was force commander of the United Nations mission. The mission was completed in June 1964.
THE DEFENCE FORCES MAGAZINE
