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Casualties and losses; ... Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007, ...
The deaths from landmine attacks would further decline in 1974 with just seven deaths & even less in 1975 with just four deaths. ... Operation Banner 1969 - 2007 by ...
The following is a Timeline of British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) undercover operations during Operation Banner during the 1969 – 1998 Northern Irish conflict in Northern Ireland that resulted in death or injury.
Operation Banner resulted in over 700 British Armed Forces deaths and 303 police deaths at the hands of native Irish Republicans. 307 people were killed by the British troops, about 51% of whom were civilians and 42% of whom were members of republican paramilitaries.
[41] [42] [43] [40] An Irish Tribunal of Inquiry by Judge Peter Smithwick into the deaths of the two senior RUC officers investigating Garda Síochána collusion with the IRA, concluded in 2013 that Breen was the target of the ambush to abduct and interrogate him on how the British security services had advance warning of the Loughgall ambush.
British military personnel killed in The Troubles (Northern Ireland) as a result of their service in Operation Banner Pages in category "British military personnel killed in The Troubles (Northern Ireland)"
Deaths: 3 (Ruddy, Anderson, McLoughlin) The 1971 Newry killings was an incident ... the British Army was deployed to the region as part of Operation Banner, ...
More than 700 of those killed were British military personnel, deployed as part of Operation Banner. The vast majority of these British military personnel were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which waged an armed campaign to force the British to negotiate a withdrawal from Northern Ireland.