§ Lord Mason of Barnsleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
To list the conflicts in the world since 1945 which have involved any of Her Majesty's forces and the estimated number of casualties incurred by Her Majesty's forces in each conflict.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (The Earl of Arran)Since 1945 59WA Her Majesty's armed forces have been engaged in the following significant conflicts which have involved an exchange of fire:
Operation Tri-service casualties killed Palestine 1945–48 250 Malayan Emergency 1948–60 1519 China Seas 1949–55 (including Yangtze incident 1949) 50 Korea 1950–53 967 Kenya (Mau Mau) 1952–56 26 Cyprus (EOKA) 1955–59 100 Suez 1956 16 Muscat and Oman 1957–59 7 Brunei Revolt/Borneo Confrontation 1962–66 71 Radfan/Aden 1964–67 98 Oman (Dhofar) 1965–75 25 Northern Ireland 1969 to date 625 Falkland Islands 1982 239 The Gulf 1991 24 1 No British only figures are available; this is a Commonwealth figure. The list excludes such other military operations as: the Berlin Airlift 1948–49 and the cod wars 1958–61, 1973 and 1975–76; other internal security operations such as Hong Kong 1956 and 1957; multinational/ peacekeeping operations such as the Lebanon 1983–84 and Namibia 1989–90; deterrent operations such as Kuwait 1961 and the Armilla Patrol in the Gulf from 1980, and military involvement in the evacuation of civilians from trouble spots, for example Cyprus 1974.