Chapter 3 - Health
                                     
Table 3.8 Number of UK Armed Forces and civilian operational fatalities
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 include Naval Service, Army (including Gurkhas), RAF, MOD Civilians and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) personnel.

The data in this table are not National Statistics because they have not been designated as such by the Ministry of Defence.
    2001 2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   2009
Afghanistan
Total
 -   3   -   1   1   39   42   51   108
 
Killed in Action
 -   -   -   1   1   20   36   47   91
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   -   -   -   1   1   3   16
 
Other2
 -   3   -   -   -   18   5   1   1
Iraq
Total
 -   -   53   22   23   29   47   4   1
 
Killed in Action
 -   -   39   10   18   18   24   2   -
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   1   -   2   9   13   -   -
 
Other2
 -   -   13   12   3   2   10   2   1
Balkans
Total
 7   -   -   1   -   1   -   -   -
 
Killed in Action
 2   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
 
Died of Wounds
 -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
 
Other2
 5   -   -   1   -   1   -   -   -
Source: DASA (Health Information)
1. 2001 data for Afghanistan starts at 7 October.
2. These data include all deaths occurring as a result of accidental or violent causes while deployed as well as deaths due to disease related causes during
    deployment.
3. The Balkans covers operational casualties in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia.