High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The three Scottish soldiers` killings was an incident that took place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. It happened on 10th March 1971, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA) ambushed and shot dead three British Army soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers. Two of the three were teenage brothers; all three were from Scotland. They were killed off-duty and in civilian clothes having been lured from a city-centre bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland, driven to a remote location and shot whilst relieving themselves by the roadside. Whilst three British soldiers had been killed prior to this event, all three had been on-duty and killed during rioting.