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British Operations 1945-2000
Please note this is NOT a complete list. This list does not include flood, hurricane and earthquake relief and operations in Hong Kong to prevent the flood of refugees from Communist China. Figures in brackets are the British Army casualties (Killed/Wounded)

1945-48 India Decolonisation and Partition
1945-48 Palestine (223/478)
1945-46 Dutch East Indies Restoring Dutch Colonial rule
1946 H.M.S. Volage hit by mines off Albania
1946-48 Greece Supporting Gov. forces during Civil War
1947 Aden Riots
1948 Gold Coast Riots, British Honduras
1948-60 Malaya Emergency (509/921 including 159/308 Gurkhas)
1948-1951 Eritrea (Operations against Shifta Terrorists)
1949 Akaba Threat of Israeli Invasion
1950 Singapore (Hartog riots)
1950-53 Korean War
1951 Akaba (Moussadeq Oil Nationalization)
1951-54 Suez Canal Zone
1952 Monte Bello Island Oct. First British A Bomb test
1952-56 Kenya Operations against the Mau Mau (12/69)
1953 British Guiana
1954-83 Cyprus (99/414)
1955 Singapore Riots, Buraimi Oasis operations
1956 Bahrain riots, Hong Kong riots, Singapore riots
Suez operations Clash on Yemenis Border
1957 British Honduras, Yemeni border clash
1957 Christmas Island May First British H Bomb test
1957-59 Muscat and Oman (6/6)
1958 Nassau strike, Jordan/Lebanon intervention
State of emergency declared in Aden.
Nyasaland (Malawi) Riots
1959 Gan riots
1960 Jamaica
1960-1 Cameroons Peace Keeping operations
1961 Kuwait, Zanzibar
1962 British Honduras, British Guiana, Aden riots Brunei *
1963 Swaziland, Zanzibar Aden
1963-66 Borneo *
1963-64 Cyprus Peace Keeping Operations
1964 Zanzibar revolution, Tuanganyika Army mutiny
Uganda Army mutiny, Kenya Army mutiny
British Guiana, civil unrest
1964-67 Aden and Radfan (90/510)
1965 Mauritius, Bechuanaland
1966 Hong Kong riots, Das Island, Seychelles
1967 Hong Kong riots
1968 Bermuda & Mauriius State of Emergency
1969 Anguilla March to September. So called Upraising
1969-84 Northern Ireland (To 27/1/84, not including UDR. 371/?)
1970 Cayman Islands April Demonstrations against Colonial administration.
1970-76 Dhofar (24/55)
1972 Bomb Scare on Queen Elizabeth II in mid atlantic and consequent SAS drop
1973 Bermuda No details
1974- Cyprus Peace Keeping Operations
1979-84 Operation Agila Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
1980 SAS assault on Iranian Embassy, New Hebrides
1982 Falklands War
1982 Sinai Peace Keeping operations
1983 Beirut
1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Kurdistan Humanitarian Relief
1992 onwards Bosnia
1999 Kosovo
2000 East Timor
2000 Sierra Leone

* Independent figures

They gave up. They surrendered. They Lost

Politicans definitely, Church of England maybe, Tommy Atkins....never.

WHEN the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .

First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts -
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts -
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .

When the cholera comes - as it will past a doubt -
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .

But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .

Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em - you'll swing, on my oath! -
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are - you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!