Sergeant Alistair Slater

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Alastair Ira Slater's service with The Parachute Regiment included a tour as a Cpl instructor at Depot, The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, while the BBC made a TV series about the training and selection process for paratroopers. It was subsequently broadcast under the title 'The PARAs'.He subsequently passed selection for 22 Special Air Service Regiment and served with B Squadron but was later killed on an operation against a four man unit of the IRA in County Fermanagh who were attempting to bomb an RUC police car.

Al Slater died on 2 December 1984, aged 28 years.