Remembering our war dead

Published on 11/11/2006 01:19

TODAY is Remembrance Day. The following is a list of British soldiers, sailors, marines, RAF personnel and merchant seamen killed on active service since the First World War.

The Great War (1914-1918): total killed in action, plus those who died of disease or injury, plus missing in action, 956,703. Total British Army deaths on the Western Front, 564,715.

Second World War (1939-1945): total British military deaths, 382,600, of which RAF Bomber Command casualties, 55,888. British merchant seamen who lost their lives during the Second World War, 30,248. Palestine (1945-1948): 233. Yangtse River, China (1949): 46.

The Korean War (1950-53): 1,109. Malayan Emergency (1950s): 519. Egypt: (1951-54): 54. Kenya (1952-56): 12. Suez invasion (1956): 22. Cyprus (1955-1958): 79. Borneo Campaign (1962-66): 16. Aden Emergency (1964-1966): 68. Dhofar (1970-76): 24. Falklands (1982): 255. Northern Ireland (1969-1998): 452 regular army killed; 203 Ulster Defence Regiment /Royal Irish Regiment. First Gulf War (1992): 47. Sierra Leone (2000): 1. British deaths in Afghanistan since 2001, 41 including 21 in non-combat injuries. British fatalities in Iraq since the invasion of 2003: 121. Lest we forget.