British fatalities during Operation Telic

Operation Telic was the codename for British operations in Iraq, which lasted from 19 March 2003 to 22 May 2011. During the campaign, 179 British service personnel died (6 of them female)^[1] and many more were wounded. Of the 179 fatalities, 136 personnel were classified as having been killed in hostile circumstances, with the remaining 43 losing their lives as a result of illness, accidents/friendly fire, or suicide. The first casualties were sustained on 21 March 2003, with the bloodiest single day of the campaign being 30 January 2005 when a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft was shot down between Baghdad and Balad, killing all 10 servicemen on board. Steven Roberts (2nd Royal Tank Regiment) is recorded as the first soldier killed in the Operation (albeit by friendly fire); two Royal Engineers were killed the previous day by a hostile crowd. Full non-fatal casualty records are currently only available for the period after 1 January 2006. From that date until the end of operations, 3,598 British personnel were wounded, injured or fell ill (315 wounded in action); 1,971 of whom required aeromedical evacuation.^[2] However, these totals are likely to rise significantly when full records for 2003 to 2006 become available.

British Dead (By Arm / Service)

Royal Navy

• Royal Navy - 8

Total: 8

Royal Marines

• Royal Marines - 11

Total: 11

British Army

• Household Cavalry Regiment - 3
• Royal Armoured Corps
  • 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards - 2
  • Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - 2
  • 9th/12th Royal Lancers - 1
  • King's Royal Hussars - 1
  • Queen's Royal Lancers - 5
  • Royal Tank Regiment - 3
• Royal Regiment of Artillery - 8
• Corps of Royal Engineers - 4
• Royal Corps of Signals - 5
• The Infantry
  • Guards Division
    • Coldstream Guards - 2
    • Scots Guards - 1
    • Irish Guards - 4
  • Scottish Division
    • Royal Highland Fusiliers - 1
    • Black Watch - 7
    • The Highlanders - 1
    • Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 1
    • 52nd Lowland Regiment - 2
    • Royal Regiment of Scotland - 2
  • Queen's Division
    • Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 3
    • Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 4
    • Royal Anglian Regiment - 2
  • King's Division
    • Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 7
    • Queen's Lancashire Regiment - 1
    • Yorkshire Regiment - 1
    • Tyne-Tees Regiment - 1
  • Prince of Wales' Division
    • Staffordshire Regiment - 4
    • Royal Welch Fusiliers - 1
    • Royal Regiment of Wales - 1
    • Royal Welsh - 3
  • Light Division
    • Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry - 1
    • Light Infantry - 3
    • Royal Green Jackets - 1
    • The Rifles - 8
  • Parachute Regiment - 3
• Special Air Service - 8
• Army Air Corps - 2
• Royal Logistic Corps - 5
• Royal Army Medical Corps - 3
• Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 5
• Adjutant General's Corps
  • Royal Military Police - 12
• Intelligence Corps - 3

Total: 137

Royal Air Force

• RAF Strike Command - 1
• RAF Benson - 2
  • No. 33 Squadron RAF (Puma HC.1) - 1
• RAF Lyneham - 3
  • No. 47 Squadron RAF (Hercules C.1/C.3) - 5
• RAF Marham
  • No. IX (B) Squadron (Tornado GR.4) - 2
• RAF Aldergrove
  • No. 230 Squadron RAF (Puma HC.1) - 1
• RAF Brize Norton - 1
• RAF Regiment
  • 1 Squadron - 3
  • 16 Squadron - 1
  • 504 Squadron RAuxAF - 1
• Royal Air Force Police - 1

Total: 22

Civilian Service Associated Personnel

• Ministry of Defence Fire Service - 1

Total: 1

British Dead (Rank - Name - Incident - Date)

(NB: IED = Improvised Explosive Device. RTA = Road Traffic Accident. Non-hostile = Friendly fire.)

2009

Combat Fatalities: 0, Other Fatalities: 1, Wounded in Action: 0, Other Injured: 218.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Private	Ryan Wrathall	Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment	Gunshot (non-hostile)	12 February 2009

2008

Combat Fatalities: 2, Other Fatalities: 2, Wounded in Action: 20, Other Injured: 758.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Corporal	Lee Churcher	Royal Engineers	Gunshot (non-hostile)	11 December 2008
Lance Corporal	David Kenneth Williams	Army Air Corps	Gunshot (non-hostile)	4 December 2008
Sergeant	Nick Brown	Special Air Service	Small arms fire	26 March 2008
Sergeant	Duane Barwood	Royal Air Force	Rocket attack	29 February 2008

2007

Combat Fatalities: 37, Other Fatalities: 10, Wounded in Action: 202, Other Injured: 1098.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Guardsman	Stephen Ferguson	Scots Guards	RTA	13 December 2007
Trooper	Lee Fitzsimmons	Special Air Service	Helicopter crash	20 November 2007
Sergeant	John Battersby	Special Air Service	Helicopter crash	20 November 2007
Lance Corporal	Sarah Holmes	Royal Logistic Corps	RTA	14 October 2007
Sergeant	Mark Stansfield	Royal Logistic Corps	Accident	21 September 2007
Sergeant	Eddie Collins	Special Air Service	'Hostile action'	5 September 2007
Lance Sergeant	Chris Casey	Irish Guards	IED	9 August 2007
Lance Corporal	Kirk Redpath	Irish Guards	IED	9 August 2007
Leading Aircraftman	Martin Beard	RAF Regiment	Small arms fire	7 August 2007
Private	Craig Barber	Royal Welsh	Small arms fire	6 August 2007
Corporal	Steve Edwards	Royal Tank Regiment	IED	1 August 2007
Lance Corporal	Timothy Darren Flowers	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	Mortar fire	21 July 2007
Senior Aircraftman	Christopher Dunsmore	RAF Regiment	Mortar fire	19 July 2007
Senior Aircraftman	Peter McFerran	RAF Regiment	Mortar fire	19 July 2007
Senior Aircraftman	Matthew Caulwell	RAF Regiment	Mortar fire	19 July 2007
Corporal	Christopher Read	Royal Military Police	Small arms fire	7 July 2007
Lance Corporal	Ryan Francis	Royal Welsh	IED	7 July 2007
Rifleman	Edward Vakabua	The Rifles	friendly fire	6 July 2007
Corporal	Paul Joszko	Royal Welsh	IED	28 June 2007
Private	Jamie Kerr	Royal Regiment of Scotland	IED	28 June 2007
Private	Scott Kennedy	Royal Regiment of Scotland	IED	28 June 2007
Corporal	John Rigby	The Rifles	IED	22 June 2007
Major	Paul Harding	The Rifles	Mortar fire	20 June 2007
Lance Corporal	James Cartwright	2nd Royal Tank Regiment	RTA	16 June 2007
Corporal	Rodney Wilson	The Rifles	Small arms fire	7 June 2007
Corporal	Jeremy Brookes	The Rifles	Small arms fire	21 May 2007
Private	Kevin Thompson	Royal Logistic Corps	IED	6 May 2007
Major	Nick Bateson	Royal Signals	RTA	1 May 2007
Rifleman	Paul Donnachie	The Rifles	Small arms fire	29 April 2007
Kingsman	Alan Joseph Jones	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	Small arms fire	23 April 2007
Corporal	Ben Leaning	Queen's Royal Lancers	IED	19 April 2007
Trooper	Kristen Turton	Queen's Royal Lancers	IED	19 April 2007
Sergeant	Mark J. McLaren	Royal Air Force	Helicopter crash	15 April 2007
Colour Sergeant	Mark Lawrence Powell	Special Air Service	Helicopter crash	15 April 2007
Second Lieutenant	Joanna Yorke Dyer	Intelligence Corps	IED	5 April 2007
Corporal	Kris O'Neill	Royal Army Medical Corps	IED	5 April 2007
Private	Eleanor Dlugosz	Royal Army Medical Corps	IED	5 April 2007
Kingsman	Adam James Smith	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	IED	5 April 2007
Rifleman	Aaron Lincoln	The Rifles	Small arms fire	2 April 2007
Kingsman	Danny John Wilson	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	Small arms fire	1 April 2007
Private	Jonathon Wysoczan	Staffordshire Regiment	Small arms fire	3 March 2007
Rifleman	Daniel Lee Coffey	The Rifles	Small arms fire	27 February 2007
Private	Luke Daniel Simpson	Yorkshire Regiment	IED	9 February 2007
Second Lieutenant	Jonathan Bracho-Cooke	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	IED	5 February 2007
Private	Michael Tench	The Light Infantry	IED	21 January 2007
Kingsman	Alexander William Green	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	Small arms fire	13 January 2007
Sergeant	Wayne Rees	Queen's Royal Lancers	RTA	7 January 2007

2006

Combat Fatalities: 27, Other Fatalities: 2, Wounded in Action: 93, Other Injured: 1209.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Sergeant	Graham Hesketh	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	IED	28 December 2006
Sergeant	Jonathan Hollingsworth	Special Air Service	Small arms fire	24 November 2006
Warrant Officer Class 2	Lee Hopkins	Royal Signals	IED	12 November 2006
Staff Sergeant	Sharron Elliott	Intelligence Corps	IED	12 November 2006
Corporal	Ben Nowak	Royal Marines	IED	12 November 2006
Marine	Jason Hylton	Royal Marines	IED	12 November 2006
Kingsman	Jamie Lee Hancock	Duke of Lancaster's Regiment	Small arms fire	6 November 2006
Lieutenant	Tom Tanswell	Royal Artillery	RTA	27 October 2006
Lance Corporal	Dennis Brady	Royal Army Medical Corps	Mortar fire	1 October 2006
Gunner	Lee Thornton	Royal Artillery	Small arms fire	5 September 2006
Gunner	Samuela Vanua	Royal Artillery	IED	4 September 2006
Gunner	Stephen Robert Wright	Royal Artillery	IED	4 September 2006
Corporal	Matthew Cornish	The Light Infantry	Mortar fire	1 August 2006
Corporal	John Cosby	Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry	friendly fire	16 July 2006
Lieutenant	Tom Mildinhall	1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards	IED	28 May 2006
Lance Corporal	Paul Farrelly	1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards	IED	28 May 2006
Private	Joseva Lewaicei	Royal Anglian Regiment	IED	13 May 2006
Private	Adam Morris	Royal Anglian Regiment	IED	13 May 2006
Wing Commander	John Coxen	Royal Air Force	Helicopter shot down	6 May 2006
Lieutenant Commander	Darren Chapman	Royal Navy	Helicopter shot down	6 May 2006
Captain	David Dobson	Army Air Corps	Helicopter shot down	6 May 2006
Flight Lieutenant	Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill	Royal Air Force	Helicopter shot down	6 May 2006
Marine	Paul Collins	Royal Marines	Helicopter shot down	6 May 2006
Lieutenant	Richard Palmer	Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	IED	16 April 2006
Captain	Richard Holmes	Parachute Regiment	IED	28 February 2006
Private	Lee Ellis	Parachute Regiment	IED	28 February 2006
Trooper	Carl Smith	9th/12th Royal Lancers	RTA	2 February 2006
Corporal	Gordon Alexander Pritchard	Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	IED	31 January 2006
Lance Corporal	Allan Douglas	The Highlanders	Small arms fire	30 January 2006

2005

Combat Fatalities: 20, Other Fatalities: 3, Wounded in Action: UNAVAILABLE, Other Injured: UNAVAILABLE.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Sergeant	John Jones	Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	IED	20 November 2005
Sergeant	Chris Hickey	Coldstream Guards	IED	18 November 2005
Captain	Ken Masters	Royal Military Police	Suicide	15 October 2005
Major	Matthew Bacon	Intelligence Corps	IED	11 September 2005
Fusilier	Donal Anthony Meade	Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	IED	5 September 2005
Fusilier	Stephen Robert Manning	Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	IED	5 September 2005
Second Lieutenant	Richard Shearer	Staffordshire Regiment	IED	16 July 2005
Private	Leon Spicer	Staffordshire Regiment	IED	16 July 2005
Private	Phillip Hewett	Staffordshire Regiment	IED	16 July 2005
Signaller	Paul William Didsbury	Royal Signals	Accident	29 June 2005
Lance Corporal	Alan Brackenbury	The King's Royal Hussars	IED	29 May 2005
Guardsman	Anthony John Wakefield	Coldstream Guards	IED	2 May 2005
Private	Mark Dobson	Tyne-Tees Regiment	'Found dead'	28 March 2005
Squadron Leader	Patrick Marshall	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Flight Lieutenant	David Stead	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Flight Lieutenant	Andrew Smith	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Flight Lieutenant	Paul Pardoel	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Master Engineer	Gary Nicolson	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Chief Technician	Richard Brown	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Flight Sergeant	Mark Gibson	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Sergeant	Robert O'Connor	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Corporal	David Williams	Royal Air Force	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005
Lance Corporal	Steven Jones	Royal Signals	Aircraft shot down	30 January 2005

2004

Combat Fatalities: 10, Other Fatalities: 12, Wounded in Action: UNAVAILABLE, Other Injured: UNAVAILABLE.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Sergeant	Paul Connolly	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	'Found dead'	26 December 2004
Private	Pita Tukutukuwaqa	Black Watch	IED	8 November 2004
Sergeant	Stuart Gray	Black Watch	Suicide car-bomb	4 November 2004
Private	Paul Lowe	Black Watch	Suicide car-bomb	4 November 2004
Private	Scott McArdle	Black Watch	Suicide car-bomb	4 November 2004
Staff Sergeant	Denise Michelle Rose	Royal Military Police	'Found dead'	31 October 2004
Private	Kevin McHale	Black Watch	RTA	29 October 2004
Corporal	Marc Taylor	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	IED	28 September 2004
Gunner	David Lawrence	Royal Artillery	IED	28 September 2004
Fusilier	Stephen Jones	Royal Welch Fusiliers	RTA	10 September 2004
Lance Corporal	Paul Thomas	The Light Infantry	Small arms fire	17 August 2004
Private	Marc Ferns	Black Watch	IED	12 August 2004
Private	Lee O'Callaghan	The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment	Attack on vehicles	9 August 2004
Private	Christopher Rayment	The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment	accident	4 August 2004
Flight Lieutenant	Kristian Gover	Royal Air Force	Helicopter accident	19 July 2004
Fusilier	Gordon Gentle	Royal Highland Fusiliers	IED	28 June 2004
Corporal	Richard Ivell	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	Accident	12 February 2004
Sapper	Robert Thompson	Royal Engineers	Accident	31 January 2004
Rifleman	Vincent Windsor	Royal Green Jackets	RTA	21 January 2004
Lance Corporal	Andrew Craw	Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders	Range accident	7 January 2004
Major	James Stenner	Special Air Service	RTA	1 January 2004
Sergeant	Norman Patterson	Special Air Service	RTA	1 January 2004

2003

Combat Fatalities: 40, Other Fatalities: 13, Wounded in Action: UNAVAILABLE, Other Injured: UNAVAILABLE.

Rank	Name	Unit	Cause of Death	Date
Private	Ryan Thomas	Royal Regiment of Wales	RTA	6 November 2003
Corporal	Ian Plank	Royal Marines	small arms fire	31 October 2003
Sergeant	John Nightingale	Royal Logistic Corps	accident	23 September 2003
Fusilier	Russell Beeston	52nd Lowland Regiment	killed in action	27 August 2003
Major	Matthew Titchener	Royal Military Police	small arms fire	23 August 2003
Warrant Officer Class 2	Colin Wall	Royal Military Police	small arms fire	23 August 2003
Corporal	Dewi Pritchard	Royal Military Police	small arms fire	23 August 2003
Captain	David Jones	Queen's Lancashire Regiment	IED	14 August 2003
Private	Jason Smith	52nd Lowland Regiment	non-hostile incident	13 August 2003
Captain	James Linton	Royal Artillery	illness	18 July 2003
Sergeant	Simon Hamilton-Jewell	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
Corporal	Russell Aston	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
Corporal	Paul Long	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
Corporal	Simon Miller	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
Lance Corporal	Benjamin Hyde	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
Lance Corporal	Thomas Keys	Royal Military Police	killed by crowd	24 June 2003
	Leonard Harvey	Ministry of Defence Fire Service	illness	22 May 2003
Corporal	David Shepherd	Royal Air Force Police	illness	19 May 2003
Gunner	Duncan Pritchard	Royal Air Force Regiment	RTA	8 May 2003
Private	Andrew Kelly	Parachute Regiment	accident	6 May 2003
Lance Corporal	James McCue	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	explosion	30 April 2003
Fusilier	Kelan Turrington	Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	friendly fire	6 April 2003
Lance Corporal	Ian Malone[3]	Irish Guards	killed in action	6 April 2003
Piper	Christopher Muzvuru[4]	Irish Guards	killed in action	6 April 2003
Lieutenant	Alexander Tweedie	Household Cavalry Regiment	vehicle accident	1 April 2003
Lance Corporal	Karl Shearer	Household Cavalry Regiment	vehicle accident	1 April 2003
Staff Sergeant	Chris Muir	Royal Logistic Corps	EOD operation	31 March 2003
Lance Corporal	Shaun Brierly	Royal Signals	RTA	30 March 2003
Marine	Christopher Maddison	Royal Marines	friendly fire	30 March 2003
Major	Steve Ballard	Royal Marines	illness	30 March 2003
Lance Corporal of Horse	Matty Hull	Household Cavalry Regiment	'friendly fire'	28 March 2003
Corporal	Stephen Allbutt	Queen's Royal Lancers	'friendly fire'	25 March 2003
Trooper	David Clarke	Queen's Royal Lancers	'friendly fire'	25 March 2003
Lance Corporal	Barry Stephen	Black Watch	killed in action	24 March 2003
Sergeant	Steven Roberts	2nd Royal Tank Regiment	friendly fire	24 March 2003
Sapper	Luke Allsopp	Royal Engineers	killed by crowd	23 March 2003
Staff Sergeant	Simon Cullingworth	Royal Engineers	killed by crowd	23 March 2003
Flight Lieutenant	Kevin Main	Royal Air Force	aircraft shot down 'friendly fire'	23 March 2003
Flight Lieutenant	David Rhys Williams	Royal Air Force	aircraft shot down 'friendly fire'	23 March 2003
Lieutenant	Philip Green	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Lieutenant	Antony King	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Lieutenant	Marc Lawrence	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Lieutenant	Philip West	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Lieutenant	James Williams	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Lieutenant	Andrew Wilson	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	22 March 2003
Colour Sergeant	John Cecil	Royal Marines	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Lance Bombardier	Llywelyn Evans	Royal Artillery	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Captain	Philip Stuart Guy	Royal Marines	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Marine	Sholto Hedenskog	Royal Marines	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Sergeant	Les Hehir	Royal Artillery	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Operator Maintainer	Ian Seymour	Royal Navy	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Warrant Officer Class 2	Mark Stratford	Royal Marines	helicopter crash	21 March 2003
Major	Jason Ward	Royal Marines	helicopter crash	21 March 2003

References

1. ↑ MOD - Operations In Iraq: British Fatalities
2. ↑ MOD - Operations in Iraq: British Casualties
3. ↑ Ian Malone (died 2003) was a citizen of the Republic of Ireland
4. ↑ Christopher Muzvuru (died 2003) was a citizen of the Republic of Zimbabwe

External links

• British Fatalities in Iraq (MoD) MoD site providing details of fatalities in operations in Iraq
• British Fatalities in Iraq BBC News article with details of fatalities.