Armed Forces: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 27th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel with non-UK nationality have died as a result of a medal-earning operation in the last 20 years.
This question was answered on 7th June 2021
From 1 January 2001 to 31 May 2021, a total of 692 UK Armed Forces personnel have died as a result of a medal earning operation. Of these 39 had a non-UK nationality recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration or Legacy systems. 50 deaths had no nationality recorded therefore the figure presented is a minimum.