Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
List of British casualties during the Iraq War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
During the Iraq War, 179 British service personnel and at least three UK Government civilian staff died.[1]
This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2015) |
Many more were wounded. Of the more than 183 fatalities, 138 personnel were classified as having been killed in hostile circumstances, with the remaining 44 losing their lives as a result of illness, accidents/friendly fire, or suicide. The first casualties were sustained on 21 March 2003, with the bloodiest single day of the campaign being 30 January 2005 when a Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft was shot down between Baghdad and Balad, killing all 10 servicemen on board. Steven Roberts (2nd Royal Tank Regiment) is recorded as the first soldier killed in the operation (albeit by friendly fire); two Royal Engineers were killed the previous day by a hostile crowd. Full non-fatal casualty records are currently only available for the period after 1 January 2006. From that date until the end of operations, 3,598 British personnel were wounded, injured or fell ill (315 wounded in action), 1,971 of whom required aeromedical evacuation.[citation needed]
Remove ads
British dead (by service)
Summarize
Perspective
Royal Navy
- Royal Navy – 8
Total: 8
Royal Marines
- Royal Marines – 11
Total: 11
British Army
- Household Cavalry Regiment – 3
- Royal Armoured Corps
- Royal Regiment of Artillery – 8
- Corps of Royal Engineers – 4
- Royal Corps of Signals – 5
- The Infantry
- Special Air Service – 8
- Army Air Corps – 2
- Royal Logistic Corps – 5
- Royal Army Medical Corps – 3
- Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – 5
- Adjutant General's Corps
- Intelligence Corps – 3
Total: 137
Royal Air Force
- RAF Strike Command – 1
- RAF Benson – 2
- No. 33 Squadron RAF (Puma HC.1) – 1
- RAF Lyneham – 3
- No. 47 Squadron RAF (Hercules C.1/C.3) – 5
- RAF Marham
- No. IX (B) Squadron (Tornado GR.4) – 2
- RAF Aldergrove
- No. 230 Squadron RAF (Puma HC.1) – 1
- RAF Brize Norton – 1
- RAF Regiment
- 1 Squadron – 3
- 16 Squadron – 1
- 504 Squadron RAuxAF – 1
- Royal Air Force Police – 1
Total: 22
UK government civilian personnel
- Ministry of Defence Fire Service – 1
- Department of Health and Social Care – 1
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office (contractor) – 2
Total: 4
Remove ads
British dead (rank – name – age – unit – incident – date)
Summarize
Perspective
(NB: IED = improvised explosive device. RTA = road traffic accident. Non-hostile = friendly fire.)
2003
Combat fatalities: 40, other fatalities: 13, wounded in action: n/a, other injured: n/a.
2004
Combat fatalities: 10, other fatalities: 12, wounded in action: n/a, Other Injured: n/a.
2005
Combat fatalities: 20, other fatalities: 3, wounded in action: n/a, other injured: n/a.
2006
Combat fatalities: 27, other fatalities: 2, wounded in action: 93, other injured: 1209.
2007
Combat fatalities: 37, other fatalities: 10, wounded in action: 202, other injured: 1098.
2008
Combat fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 2, wounded in action: 20, other injured: 758.
2009
Combat fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 1, wounded in action: 0, other injured: 218.
Remove ads
Notes
- Christopher Muzvuru (died 2003) was a citizen of the Republic of Zimbabwe
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads