Ogmore Valley Military Deaths

28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or “the war to end all wars”, it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history.

From 1939 to 1945, WW2 involved the vast majority of the world’s countries in a state of total war, directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries.

A period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years. The conflict began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States–led coalition which overthrew the authoritarian government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

This section covers any other known death in service from serving personnel from the Ogmore Valley not covered in the named sections.