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Two Iraqi police officers were shot, at least one of whom died. [1] The two soldiers were arrested and taken to the Al Jameat Police Station. [2] The two SAS operators were part of Operation Hathor whose objective was keeping an Iraqi Police officer (who ran a crime unit with rumoured links to corruption and brutality in the city) under ...
During the Iraq War, 179 British service personnel and at least three UK Government civilian staff died. [1]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.
July 9 - One soldier was killed along with five Americans in a mortar attack on a military headquarters in Samarra. [715] July 14 - A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the British Embassy and the interim Iraqi government's headquarters in Baghdad killing four soldiers. [721]
The Iraqi side fired first. Later they went to the police station and attacked there. The mob wanted to shelter at the police station and use it as a base to attack the British. [35] Back at the Militia Headquarters, Alpha Company were crouched down behind their vehicles dodging the rocks being thrown at them by an angry crowd. [36]
Military Dead Civilian Dead Total Dead Note World War II: 1939 2025 383,700 67,100 450,900 World War II deaths; includes deaths from the Crown Colonies: Arab revolt in Palestine: 1936 1939 262 262 Iraqi revolt against the British: 1920 1920 1,000 5,000 Tauber, E., The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq, pp. 312-314 Anglo-Irish War: 1919 1921 ...
Denise Michelle Rose (22 April 1970 – 31 October 2004) [1] was a staff Sergeant of the Royal Military Police's Special Investigation Branch and she was the first British female soldier to die in military operations in the Iraq War. Her death was later ruled to have been a suicide.
Graph of monthly deaths of U.S. military personnel in Iraq from beginning of war to June 24, 2008. [ 50 ] As of July 19, 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,431 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,994 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq War.
On 11 July 2003, 1st Armoured Division handed control over south-east Iraq to 3rd Mechanised Division, Major General Wall was succeeded by Major General Graeme Lamb as commander of British ground forces in Iraq. Unlike the invasion period, by then there was a substantial presence from many nations other than America, Britain, Australia and Poland.