Casualties of War
Statistics

The following statistics were obtained from official sources, and it can be seen from these stats, that the Suez Canal Zone was not a healthy place to be in during the years 1951-1954.  It shows that the case for a medal is just. We would like to thank Ex Royal Marine James Robinson for the following stats on the casualties in all of Britain's Small Wars in the latter half of the 20th Century.  This seems to be the official count.

Conflict/Theatre
Year
Killed 
Wounded
Award
 Palestine 
1945-48
233
478
GSM
(Clasp)  GV1R
Malaya 
1948-61
340
613
GSM
(Clasp) GV1R, EllR.
Yantse River China
1949
46
75
Naval GSM
Korea 
1950-53
765 
2589 
British
Korea Medal
Egypt 
1951-54 
54 * 
 124 
No medal
awarded
Suez 
1956
 22
97 
GSM
(Clasp) EllR
 Kenya 
1952-56
12 
69 
Africa
GSM  (Clasp) EllR
Cyprus
1955-58
79 
414 
GSM
(Clasp) EllR
Borneo
1962-66
16
36 
GSM
(Clasp) EllR
Aden
1964-67
68
322 
GSM
(Clasp) EllR
Dhofar 
1970-76
24
25
  GSM
(Clasp) EllR
Northern Ireland
1969-
443
Not Known
GSM
(Clasp) EllR
Falklands
1982
255
777
South Atlantic
Medal
Gulf War
1992
47
Not Known
The Gulf
Medal

*  This is the official Total

John (Jock) Marrs


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