Operational deployments

British Operations 1945-2005

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 & Mauritius 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
1992-?	Operation Hanwood 1, 2 and 3
1994	Yemen - Operation Bottleneck. Evacuation of various embassy staffs
1994	Operation Gabriel(?) 9 Para Squadron RE and elms 23 Parachute Field Ambulance to Rwanda
1994	Kuwait - Deployment of Spearhead Battalion (45 Cdo RM) to Kuwait in response to another Iraqi threat of invasion.
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).