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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 .
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.
1972 was the highest death toll of The Troubles in a single year, with almost 500 people being killed, including 130 British soldiers and 16 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) members. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) themselves lost 62 Volunteers . [ 2 ]
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)"
A third unrelated sniper attack, which resulted in the death of a British soldier, was carried out by the IRA in the New Lodge, North Belfast, on 3 August 1992. [45] Two other soldiers were wounded by snipers in the New Lodge, which was suitable for sniper attacks because of the number of high-rise flats in the area, in November 1993 [ 46 ] and ...
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.
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 deaths led to public mourning and protests against the IRA. Pressure to act spurred a political crisis for the Northern Ireland Government, which led to the resignation of James Chichester-Clark as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. The British Army raised the minimum age needed to serve in Northern Ireland to 18 in response to this incident.