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30 April 2009 – British Army withdraws from Iraq, Operation Telic continues mainly by Royal Navy personnel. 10 July 2009 – Five men from 9 Plt, C Coy, 2 RIFLES died and ten were wounded, over half of the entire patrol, in what was the worst casualty toll for a British foot patrol during the war in Afghanistan.
The Time line of the British Army since 2000, lists the conflicts and wars the British Army were involved in. . Sierra Leone Civil War (2000); Yugoslav wars (ended 2001); Iraq War (2003–2011)
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The Time line of the British Army 1900–1999 lists the conflicts and wars the British Army were involved in. Boxer Rebellion ended 1901; Anglo-Aro War 1901–1902; Second Boer War ended 1902; World War I 1914–1918; Easter Rising 1916; Third Afghan War 1919; Irish War of Independence 1919–1921; World War II 1939–1945; Greek civil war 1946 ...
Masterdom (1945–1946) — French and British Armies operation against Viet Minh in Indochina after the Liberation from Japan. Mouette (1953) — French operation against Viet Minh in Indochina. Papillon (1947) — French operation against Viet Minh in Indochina.
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
With violence escalating in India after the war, but with British financial power at a low ebb, large-scale military involvement was impossible. The Viceroy of India warned he needed a further seven army divisions to prevent communal violence if independence negotiations failed.
1945 Order of Precedence of the British Army. After the Second World War the British Army was significantly reduced in size, although National Service continued until 1960. [78] This period saw decolonisation begin with the partition and independence of India and Pakistan, followed by the independence of British colonies in Africa and Asia.