The device, believed to be a remote-controlled bomb, was hidden in a laundry van near the barracks, close to the junction of Ebury Bridge Road and St. Barnabas Street.

[1] Two civilians, Nora Field, 59 and John Breslin, 18, were killed in the blast,[4] and 40 people were injured, 23 of them soldiers, eight of whom received severe injuries.

[5][6] It was the worst attack carried out by the IRA in England since the London Hilton bombing, which killed two civilians and injured over 60 others.

We await the hypocrisy which will undoubtedly follow from British political leaders whose attitude to Irish victims of their violence in our country only strengthens our conviction in our cause and methods.

[9][10] On 26 October 1981, Kenneth Howorth, a police explosives officer, was killed trying to defuse an IRA bomb placed in a Wimpy Bar in Oxford Street, London.

In December 1983, six people were killed and 90 injured in London when an IRA car bomb exploded outside Harrods apartment store.

In the book INLA: Deadly Divisions Henry McDonald and Jack Holland wrote: "McLaughlin is almost certainly an innocent man ... His links to the bomb team seem to be no more than accidental".