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UK ARMED FORCES - FATAL CASUALTIES SINCE 1945


The names of the UK service personnel who lost their lives during Operation Banner are listed on the Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire. The Memorial, which opened to the public in October 2007, remembers all those killed on duty in conflicts or on training exercises, by terrorist action or on peacekeeping missions - www.forcesmemorial.org

Korea: 765
Northern Ireland: 763 (includes military deaths on UK mainland and Germany attributed to Irish terrorism) (171 died in 1972)
Malaya: 340
The Falklands: 255
Palestine: 233
Iraq 2003-2009: 179
Afghanistan: 404 (March 2012)
Cyprus: 105
Aden: 68
Egypt: 54
Balkans: 48
The Gulf 1990: 47
Yangtse River: 46
Oman & Dhofar: 24
Suez: 22
Borneo: 126
Kenya: 12
Sierra Leone: 1

This list does not include those wounded (over 12,000) or those killed on "non-active" service duties, training or through accidents.