RUC constable Victor Arbuckle who was shot during street disturbances on the Shankill Road Belfast. He was the first RUC man killed in the troubles. 11th October 1969. Constable Arbuckle was shot as he stood beside other officers. Alongside him was Sergeant Dermot Hurley, who was shot dead by the IRA just two years later. He was the first Catholic RUC officer to be killed in the Troubles.

302 members of the constabulary were killed between 1969 and 1998.

More than 250 uniformed colleagues walked behind Mr Arbuckle's coffin after the funeral service in a small east Belfast gospel hall. Three men were later found not guilty of his capital murder - a charge which carried a sentence of death at the time. They were given jail terms ranging from six to 10 years for arms offences on the night of the killing.

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Peter McCabe is a Belfast-based tour guide, with an Open College Network Level 2 Tour Guiding qualification, and is an associate member of History Hub Ulster. Peter possesses experience of leading a variety of walking tours, especially around East Belfast and a in range of local cemeteries, as well as on the city sightseeing tourist buses. To date, Peter has also written four books, detailing people buried in a myriad of cemeteries in Belfast and beyond. Peter also looks after the childhood home of George Best - which is available as a short-term holiday let, and for house tours - and is also a guide at Belfast Harbour Office, his favourite municipal building in Belfast.