Armed Forces: Casualties
(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have died on active service in each year since 2010.
From 1 January 2010 to 16 March 2015, 211 UK Armed Forces personnel have died while on active service. The table below presents this figure by year and Operational theatre.
Operation | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Afghanistan | 103 | 46 | 44 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
Libya | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cyprus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Notes:
1. Figures include Regular and Reservist personnel.
2. Figures relate to all causes of death; hostile action, accidents, natural causes, assaults, coroner confirmed suicide or open verdicts and cause not known.
3. Figures include personnel who died of their injuries in the UK or other countries as a result of injuries sustained whilst deployed in an Operational theatre.