100th British Fatality
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This is tragic news but please remember all of those who do not make the news! During the first three months of Op Telic alone there were 1450 casualties brought back to the uk Some of them were severly injured and we never hear about them in the news. I guess by now it is several thousand wounded.
Originally Posted by Tigs2
This is tragic news but please remember all of those who do not make the news! During the first three months of Op Telic alone there were 1450 casualties brought back to the uk Some of them were severly injured and we never hear about them in the news. I guess by now it is several thousand wounded.
Reid/MOD was cornered about it and came up with an official number being 230 odd, with about 4,000 being the offical number of repariations back to UK for medical treatment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4632394.stm
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Reid/MOD was cornered about it and came up with an official number being 230 odd
Using the US figures of 2,243 killed and 16,420 wounded or.... 1 killed for every 7 wounded the British figure would be in the region of 700 wounded.
I know that this is a very crude way of looking at the stats but I find it hard to believe that there is such a difference between the ratios of wounded to killed between the US and UK troops.
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Well said, Sir! (Read the last line in the link)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...020989,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...020989,00.html
