Corporal Paul Edward Harman was killed during operation Banner (Northern Ireland) on 14 December 1977.
Paul was alone whilst driving an unmarked civilian vehicle along the Monagh Road in the Turf Lodge area, when he was stopped by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. As he attempted to escape, he was shot dead by the terrorists.
Paul, the son of a diplomat, was born in Ankara, Turkey on 15 April 1950. He originally joined the 16th/5th Lancers (regimental number: 24302090) and served in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion of the island. He transferred to the Intelligence Corps on 15 May 1975 (photograph of Squad 57 attached), and having been selected for special duties he was posted to Northern Ireland and was 27 years old on the day he died.
He was the only member the Corps to be killed in action during operations in Northern Ireland (Operation BANNER). In his memory, the trophy awarded to the winning team at the Corps’ annual football tournament was renamed the Harman Trophy.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
(Image: Paul on Exercise SNOW QUEEN 1975.)
Above text and images from the Intelligence Corps.
Alan Malcher 
Thank you, Alan.
Your work contributes hugely to our understanding of Special Ops in WWII, Resistance, and Operation Banner. Northern Ireland has a special place in my heart since at the age of 11 in 1955, I was able to spend a year in Belfast. Those memories of Malone Elementary, the Cane, and Rosetta Elementary will stay with me to the end. I visited my Tutor there, Mr. Cecil Colbert, in 1988. He not only helped me with matthematics but also in the King’s English & British Imperial History.
V/r,
Mr. Gail H. Nelson, Ph.D.
German & Russian Studies
University of Colorado
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Thank you Gail
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