The Ministry of Defence has centrally compiled and verified records of coroner-confirmed suicides and open verdict deaths that have occurred among UK regular Service personnel while in service during the period 1984 to 2006. The information is summarised in the following table .
Information is also available on regular service personnel who were deployed to the conflicts in the Gulf (September 1990 to June 1991), Iraq (January 2003 to December 2006) and Afghanistan (October 2005 to December 2006), and have since died in service of coroner-confirmed suicide or open verdict deaths.
Information on suicides and open verdict deaths that may have occurred to service personnel after discharge from the services is not currently available.
All regular personnel Regular personnel who had served on operations overseas 2, 3 Total 696 77 1984 27 — 1985 30 — 1986 44 — 1987 27 — 1988 41 — 1989 36 — 1990 50 — 1991 48 10 1992 37 9 1993 43 6 1994 35 3 1995 43 6 1996 31 6 1997 26 3 1998 19 4 1999 27 3 2000 36 3 2001 15 1 2002 14 3 2003 25 7 2004 19 7 2005 19 4 2006 4 2 1 The figures provided do not include any violent or unnatural deaths that have not yet been fully investigated by a coroner (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or the Procurator Fiscal (Scotland). 2 Regular personnel who had served on operations overseas may have died while overseas or at any time after their return. 3 Regular personnel who had served on operations overseas in the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan