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Britains Wars : British Operations 1945 - 2004
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From: MSN NicknameLettie011  (Original Message)Sent: 8/17/2005 11:11 AM
British Operations  1945-2004

Please note this is NOT a complete list. This list does not include flood, hurricane and earthquake relief and operations in Hong Kong to prevent the flood of refugees from Communist China. Figures in brackets are the British Army casualties (Killed/Wounded)
 

1945-48 India Decolonisation and Partition
1945-48 Greece Supporting Gov. forces during Civil War
1945-48 Palestine (223/478)
1945-46 Dutch East Indies Restoring Dutch Colonial rule
1946-48 Southern Indo-China
1946 H.M.S. Volage hit by mines off  Albania
1947 Aden Riots
1948 Gold Coast Riots, British Honduras
1948-49 Somalia
1948-60 Malaya Emergency (509/921 including 159/308 Gurkhas) 
1948-1951 Eritrea (Operations against Shifta Terrorists)
1949 Akaba Threat of Israeli Invasion
1950 Singapore (Hartog riots)
1950-53 Korean War
1951 Akaba (Moussadeq Oil Nationalization)
1951-54 Suez Canal Zone
1952 Monte Bello Island Oct. First British A Bomb test
1952-56 Kenya  Operations against the Mau Mau (12/69)
1953 British Guiana
1954-83 Cyprus (99/414)
1955 Singapore Riots, Buraimi Oasis operations
1956 Bahrain riots, Hong Kong riots, Singapore riots
Suez operations  Clash on Yemenis Border
1957 British Honduras, Yemeni border clash
1957 Christmas Island May First British H Bomb test
1957-59 Muscat and Oman (6/6)
1958 Nassau strike, Jordan/Lebanon intervention 
State of emergency declared in Aden.
Nyasaland (Malawi) Riots
1959 Gan riots
1960 Jamaica
1960-1 Cameroons Peace Keeping operations
1961 Kuwait, Zanzibar
1962 British Honduras, British Guiana,  Aden riots Brunei *
1963 Swaziland,  Zanzibar Aden
1963-66 Borneo *
1963-64 Cyprus Peace Keeping Operations
1964 Zanzibar revolution, Tuanganyika Army mutiny
Uganda Army mutiny, Kenya Army mutiny
British Guiana, civil unrest
1964-67 Aden and Radfan (90/510)
1965 Mauritius, Bechuanaland
1966 Hong Kong riots, Das Island, Seychelles
1967 Hong Kong riots
1968 Bermuda &  Mauriius State of Emergency
1968-69 AntiguaCivil unrest
1969 Anguilla March to September. So called Upraising
1969-84 Northern Ireland (To 27/1/84, not including UDR. 371/?)
1970 Cayman Islands April Demonstrations against Colonial administration. 
1971 Pakistan - Refugee evacuation
1970-76 Dhofar (24/55)
1972 Bomb Scare on Queen Elizabeth II in mid atlantic and consequent SAS drop
1973 Egypt - UN Peacekeeping support
1973 Bermuda  No details
1974- Cyprus Peace Keeping Operations
1978 Lebanon - UN Operation (supporting Fijian troops)
1979 Iran - Evacuation of civilians
1979-84 Operation Agila Rhodesia/Zimbabwe 
1980 SAS assault on Iranian Embassy, New Hebrides 
1980 New Hebrides - Civil unrest
1982 Falklands War
1982 Sinai Peace Keeping operations
1983 Beirut
1983  Aden - Evacuation of British Nationals (civil war)
1987-88 Gulf - Mine sweeping / clearance
1991 Persian Gulf War 
1991 Kurdistan Humanitarian Relief
1991-2003 N Iraq - Northern "No fly" Zone
1991-2003 S Iraq Southern "No fly" Zone
1992 onwards Bosnia
1994 Yemen - Evacuation of various embassy staffs
1995 Angola - Peacekeeping (post civil war)
1997 Congo - Evacuation British nationals (civil unrest)
1998 Congo - Evacuation British nationals (civil war)
1999-? Kosovo- NATO peacekeeping
2000 East Timor - UN peacekeeping
2000 Sierra Leone
2001 Macedonia - Disarming fighting factions
2001- Afghanistan
2003 Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom
2003 Congo
2003 Solomon Islands
2004 Ivory Coast - Operation Phillis

* Independent figures not available for Brunei and Borneo, 75 killed (including 43 Gurkhas) and 158 wounded (including 87 Gurkhas).



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