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At a certain point, reports of an IRA sniper operating in the area were allegedly given to the Army command centre.

At Brigade gave the British Parachute Regiment permission to go in to the Bogside.

The order to fire live rounds was given, and one young man was shot and killed when he ran down Chamberlain Street away from the advancing troops.

This first fatality, Jackie Duddy, was among a crowd who were running away.

He was running alongside a priest, Father Edward Daly, when he was shot in the back.

Continuing violence by British troops escalated, and eventually the order was given to mobilise the troops in an arrest operation, chasing the tail of the main group of marchers to the edge of the field by Free Derry Corner.