Education
The eldest of a family of five, Malone was educated by the De Louisiana Salle Christian Brothers Catholic school.
The eldest of a family of five, Malone was educated by the De Louisiana Salle Christian Brothers Catholic school.
He was the first person born in Ireland to be killed in the Iraq War. Malone"s funeral in Dublin was the first funeral with a uniformed British military presence in the Republic of Ireland since 1922. Twenty-eight-year-old Ian Malone came from a working class background in the Dublin suburb of Ballyfermot.
He served in Farm Credit Administration, the reserve force of the Irish Army.
lieutenant is claimed that he applied to join the Irish Army as a regular soldier, but was rejected due to his age. but when he joined the Irish Guards in 1997, a regiment of the British Army created in 1900 by Queen Victoria he was 23 years old and the age limits for the Irish Army is over 17 years and under 25 years of age. Malone was promoted to lance corporal in October 2000 and served on Operation Agricola in Kosovo.
He also served with the Battle Group in Poland, Canada, Oman and Germany. In November 2002 Lance Corporal Malone was one of a number of British soldiers interviewed on a Radio Telefís Éireann documentary series, True Lives.
Regarding his membership of the British Army, he said:
At the end of the day I am just abroad doing a job.
People go on about Irishmen dying for freedom and all that. That"s a fair one. They did. But they died to give men like me the freedom to choose what to do.
Malone was deployed on Operation Telic in an armoured infantry section with Number 1 Company, Irish Guards, as part of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Battle Group within 7 Armoured Brigade.
Lance Corporal Malone was shot in the head by a sniper on 6 April in Iraq during the Irish Guards" advance on the country"s second largest city, Basra. His funeral on 24 April 2003 drew large crowds, including senior politicians from the opposition such as Gay Mitchell, Territorial Decoration. An honour guard of the Irish Guards in their full dress uniform was provided, though the coffin was not draped in the Union flag.
One piper from the Irish Guard and one piper from the Irish Defence Forces, 2inf bn Cq C o"Dywer Prime Minister, played at the funeral, Oft in the stilly night. Massachusetts His funeral was the first time since 1922 that uniformed British Army soldiers had been seen in Dublin.
He completed a piper"s course in April 1999, and was a member of the pipe band.