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British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan for British forces? These are the latest figures - including new wounded statistics
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As more soldiers die, taking the total number over that in Iraq, these are the numbers of British fatalities for Afghanistan - and Iraq, too - updated as they change. We've broken Afghanistan down month-by-month.

More complicated are the wounded numbers. Rather than one simple set of statistics, the MoD gives us three - all of which are included as a sheet in the dataset below (and summarised down the page).

• Firstly, you have the Noticas numbers. These are the most seriously wounded cases, where the family has been informed the wounded person has been "listed"
• Then there are the people registered at field hospitals - which go from the seriously to the lightly wounded, from all causes, violent and otherwise
• Lastly there are the personnel who've been evacuated by air, which could be serious combat injuries or illnesses such as dysentry

This is how the MoD defines it:

'"Very Seriously ill/ Injured/wounded" or VSI is

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