James (Jim) Sloan
James (Jim) Sloan 19 years, New Lodge Road, an IRA activist, he was shot dead by UDA/UFF gun on the New Lodge Road on 3 February 1973. Mr Sloan was standing along with another IRA activist, James McCann (18), when a car pulled along side them and opened fire. Mr McCann died several hours later. After the gunmen drove off British soldiers on top of near by flats fired on people going to their aid. Four other people, Anthony Campbell (19), Ambrose Hardy (26), Brendan Maguire (33), and James Loughran, were killed in this firing.
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