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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)"
Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007, as part of the Troubles. It was the longest continuous deployment in British military history .
Afghanistan (Operation Herrick) 2001 2014 457 101 546 British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001 [2] [3] Sierra Leone Civil War: 2000 2000 1 1 Balkans - Bosnia/Kosovo: 1992 2009 72 72 Ref: Gulf War 1990–1991 (Operation Granby) 1990 1991 47 47 Falklands War (Operation Corporate) 1982 1982 255 3 258 Northern Ireland (Operation Banner ...
The men were part of the RUC Operational Support Unit, which surveilled the Irish border along with the British Army. [85] The unmarked patrol car was on Main Street when it was hit by at least 20 shots from both sides of the road. In a follow up operation a British Army Lynx helicopter received automatic fire from an IRA unit. [86] [87]
The Clonoe Ambush was a military action between the British Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that occurred during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.On 16 February 1992, an IRA unit which had attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security base in the village of Coalisland in County Tyrone, was ambushed shortly afterwards by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the grounds ...
The British Army's official assessment on Operation Banner acknowledges that the sniper campaign "had an impact on morale among some troops and police officers". [74] The morale of the troops was so low that some servicemen had to be disciplined for remaining in shelter while they were under orders to check vehicles. [75] A British major said:
Two civilians were killed in an PIRA bomb attack at the Falls Baths in West Belfast. In the follow-up operation a British Army bomb disposal officer was killed when he stepped on a pressure-plate bomb left nearby. His death marked 400 British Army deaths during the conflict. [116] 23 July
The Warrenpoint ambush, [9] also known as the Narrow Water ambush, [10] the Warrenpoint massacre [11] or the Narrow Water massacre, [12] was a guerrilla attack [13] by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979.