Chapter 3 - Health
                                 
This section provides the numbers of fatalities and casualties involving personnel deployed on operations. In agreement with Under Secretary of State for Defence, DASA are responsible for reporting on all medium scale operations since 2001. Data on operations smaller than medium-scale are not centrally compiled. The operations reported on below reflect those operations for which data have been published on the MOD website. The tables present the numbers of fatalities and casualties since reporting began in 2001 up until end of 2008. The data include Naval Service, Army (including Gurkhas), RAF, MOD Civilians and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) personnel.

The operations reported on below reflect those operations for which data have been published on the MOD website, where further information on field hospital admissions and aero-medical evacuations is also available for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets/OperationsInIraqBritishCasualties.htm
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets/OperationsInAfghanistanBritishCasualties.htm
Table 3.8 Number of UK Armed Forces and Civilian Operational Fatalities1
DASA use the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Cell (JCCC) categories of killed in action and died of wounds which together provide information on the number of Service personnel who have died as a result of hostile action. The term killed in action is used when a battle casualty has died outright or as a result of injuries before reaching a medical facility, whilst died of wounds refers to battle casualties who died of wounds or other injuries after reaching a medical facility.
The data in this table are not National Statistics because they have not been designated as such by the Ministry of Defence.
    2001 2 2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008
Afghanistan
Total
 -   3   -   1   1   39   42   51
 
Killed in Action
 -   -   -   1   1   20   36   47
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   -   -   -   1   1   3
 
Other3
 -   3   -   -   -   18   5   1
Iraq
Total
 -   -   53   22   23   29   47   4
 
Killed in Action
 -   -   39   10   18   18   24   2
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   1   -   2   9   13   -
 
Other3
 -   -   13   12   3   2   10   2
Balkans
Total
 7   -   -   1   -   1   -   -
 
Killed in Action
 2   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
 
Other3
 5   -   -   1   -   1   -   -
Source: DASA (Health Information)
1.  Some deaths may not have clearly defined cause information and could be subject to change depending on the outcome of the Boards of Inquiry and/or      Coroners' Inquest.
2.  2001 data for Afghanistan starts at 7 October.
3.  These data include all deaths occurring as a result of accidental or violent causes while deployed and deaths due to disease related causes during the      deployment.