List_of_Irish_military_casualties_overseas

List of Irish military casualties overseas

List of Irish military casualties overseas

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This is a list of Irish military personnel of the Defence Forces who have died while serving overseas.

A Ceremonial Guard at the site of the National Memorial to members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State, Merrion Square, Dublin
Lebanon cedar planted in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland to commemorate Irish soldiers who died on UN service.

Since the 1960s, 88 personnel (87 from the Irish Army and one from the Air Corps) have died in overseas deployments.[1][2][3]

Fatalities have primarily occurred as part of United Nations peacekeeping missions, with 26 lives lost in the Congo under ONUC; 9 in Cyprus under UNFICYP; two in the Middle East under UNTSO; 47 in Lebanon under UNIFIL; one in East Timor under UNTAET; one in Liberia under UNMIL and two in Europe under the EU Nordic Battlegroup and EUMS.

Irish Defence Forces Roll of Honour

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Fatalities by mission

An MP stands on duty below the national flag at the National Memorial
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See also

Notes

  1. Died in Ireland while on leave from Brussels posting[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Overseas Deployments - Roll of Honour". military.ie. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Irish Defence Forces Roll of Honour". curragh.info. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Soldier killed in Lebanon named as Private Seán Rooney with one of those injured from Cork". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  4. [4]
    "Tributes to Army Officer Killed in Car Accident". thejournal.ie. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2019. Lt Col Jack Griffin who was killed after being struck by a car [...] had been jogging on the Horse and Jockey road, just outside Thurles, in Tipperary [...] At the time of his death he was based in Brussels as part of the EU's military staff from which he had been at home on a few days leave
  5. [5]
    "Irish soldier killed on UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon". the Guardian. 15 December 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Remains of Pte Seán Rooney to be repatriated Sunday evening". The Irish Times. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
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