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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 .
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.
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 ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
After two attacks in 1997, a Special Air Service unit captured four men from the sniper team based in the west of the region on 10 April, who were responsible for several deaths. After a brief scuffle, James McArdle, Michael Caraher, Bernard McGinn and Martin Mines were seized at a farm near Freeduff and handed over to the RUC.
Deaths Name Type National affiliation Date Submarine National affiliation 9,343 [2] Wilhelm Gustloff: Cruise ship converted into a military transport serving as evacuation ship Germany: 30 January 1945: S-13 Soviet Union: 6,500 [3] Goya: Freighter converted into a troop transport serving as evacuation ship Germany: 16 April 1945: L-3 Soviet ...
SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1862) Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class. SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max (1865) SMS Habsburg (1865) SMS Lissa (1869) SMS Kaiser (1858) – former ship of the line, re-launched 1871 as ironclad; SMS Custoza (1872) SMS Erzherzog Albrecht (1872) Kaiser Max class. SMS Kaiser Max (1875) SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1875) SMS Prinz Eugen ...