19 September 2005: Three soldiers are injured - none seriously - as their armoured vehicles are attacked with firebombs and rockets by a violent crowd during a rescue operation to free two British soldiers arrested in Basra. Iraqi police claimed pair - reported to be undercover SAS officers - had opened fire on them after refusing to stop at a checkpoint.
11 September 2005: Major Matthew Bacon is killed in an attack in Basra when a roadside bomb strikes his armoured vehicle.
5 September 2005: Fusilier Donal Anthony Meade and Fusilier Stephen Robert Manning, are killed by a roadside bomb while travelling in a convoy about five miles east of Shaibah airbase, in Basra province.
21 August 2005: A soldier is wounded by a roadside bomb in the Tariq district of Basra.
6 August 2005: A roadside bomb injures a soldier in the Gzeiza area of Basra.
16 July 2005: Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer; Private Leon Spicer, and Private Phillip Hewett, from the 1st Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment die in a roadside bomb blast while on patrol in Amarah, north of Basra.
29 May 2005: Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury of the King's Royal Hussars in A Squadron is killed in an explosion in Amarah, north of Basra, caused by a roadside bomb.
2 May 2005: Guardsman Anthony Wakefield from the 12th Mechanised Brigade dies a day after his armoured car patrol is hit by a roadside bomb in Amarah.
20 January 2005: A suspected suicide car bombing injures nine soldiers and several Iraqis at the Shaibah logistic base, south of Basra.
19 November 2004: Black Watch troops come under rocket attack at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles (32km) south of Baghdad. The regiment took over the base from US forces in October.
17 November 2004: A suicide car bomber detonates a device at a checkpoint manned by six Queen's Dragoon Guards at Camp Dogwood.
8 November 2004: Sniper Pte Pita Tukatukawaqa of the Black Watch, dies when a roadside bomb hits his Warrior armoured vehicle near Camp Dogwood.
8 November 2004: Two UK bomb disposal experts are injured after their vehicle is rammed near Camp Dogwood.
4 November 2004: Three Black Watch troops - Sgt Stuart Gray; Private Paul Lowe, and Private Scott McArdle are killed by a suicide bomber near Camp Dogwood.
31 October-3 November 2004: Black Watch troops come under mortar attack at Camp Dogwood.
28 September 2004: Cpl Marc Taylor, from the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, and Gunner David Lawrence, of the Royal Artillery, die after a military convoy is ambushed south west of Basra.
17 August 2004: Lance Corporal Paul Thomas of The Light Infantry is killed in an exchange of fire with insurgents in Basra.
12 August 2004: Black Watch Private Marc Ferns dies after an improvised bomb attack in Basra.
9 August 2004: Private Lee O'Callaghan, from the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, is killed during an attack by insurgents in Basra.
28 June 2004: Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle of the 1st Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers dies and two other soldiers are injured in an improvised explosive device attack on a UK military convoy in Basra.
15 May 2004: Troops come under attack in fighting with militants loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr near Basra.
14 May 2004: Fierce fighting after two ambushes on patrols in Amarah on 14 May leave at least 20 Iraqis dead and two British soldiers hurt.
9 May 2004: Three soldiers are injured in a grenade attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
8 May 2004: Hundreds of Iraqi militiamen loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr clash with troops in Basra. Two Iraqis are killed and three coalition soldiers injured in the violence.
1 May 2004: Six British soldiers are injured after a foot patrol comes under fire in Amarah. The attack sparks a seven-and-a-half hour gun battle with insurgents in the city centre.
22 April 2004: Five British soldiers are among the injured in bombings outside police stations in Basra. All are members of the 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers.
17 April 2004: Two British soldiers serving with the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment suffer gunshot injuries during fighting in the town of Al Almarah.
9 November 2003: Troops come under attack near a hospital in the centre of Basra.
31 October 2003: Ian Plank, a Royal Marines NCO, is killed by hostile fire during an operation.
13 October 2003: Four British soldiers receive minor injuries in two separate explosions in Basra.
8 October 2003: A suspected mortar hits the main British military headquarters in Basra.
27 August 2003: Fusilier Russell Beeston, a Territorial Army soldier in 52nd Lowland Regiment, is shot dead on patrol after being confronted by "angry Iraqis" in Ali al-Sharqi, about 200 kilometres (120 miles) north-west of Basra.
23 August 2003: Three soldiers from the Royal Military Police - Major Matthew Titchener, Co Sergeant Major Colin Wall and Corporal Dewi Pritchard - are killed in an ambush in central Basra.
14 August 2003: Captain David Jones, of Queen's Lancashire Regiment, is killed during a bomb attack on a military ambulance in Basra.
9 August 2003: Troops come under attack by protesters in Basra rioting over fuel and electricity shortages.
6 July 2003: A soldier is shot and wounded in a sniper attack on the outskirts of Basra.
24 June 2004: Six Royal Military Police soldiers are gunned down at a civilian police station in Al Majar al-Kabir, near Basra.
They were Sergeant Simon Alexander Hamilton-Jewell, Corporal Russell Aston, Corporal Paul Graham Long, Corporal Simon Miller, Lance Corporal Benjamin John McGowan Hyde, and Lance Corporal Thomas Richard Keys. A further eight are wounded after coming under attack in a separate incident.
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