Afghanistan and Iraq: Reserve Forces

(asked on 21st November 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Lord De Mauley Portrait
Lord De Mauley
(Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many reservists have died on operations in (1) Iraq, and (2) Afghanistan, since 2000, broken down by service.

Answered by
Baroness Goldie Portrait
Baroness Goldie
Shadow Minister (Defence)
This question was answered on 5th December 2022

The requested information is provided in the following table:

UK Armed Forces Reservist deaths as a result of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, numbers, 1 January 2000 to 20 November 2022

Conflict

Iraq1

Afghanistan2

ALL

8

24

Royal Navy

0

0

Royal Marines

0

1

Army

7

22

RAF

1

1

Source: Defence Statistics Health

  1. Includes deaths on Op TELIC and Op SHADER.
  2. Includes deaths on Op VERITAS, Op HERRICK and Op TORAL.

Information on deaths as a result of operations is regularly published in the Official Statistic on UK Armed Forces operational deaths post World War Two: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-operational-deaths-post-world-war-2-2022. The latest update was published on 31 March 2022 (as of 28 February 2022).

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