Editing British Army (section)

==== Persian Gulf War ====
{{Main|Gulf War|Operation Granby}}

[[File:An APC of the 7th Brigade Royal Scots.JPEG|thumb|250px|alt=An armoured personnel carrier flying the Union Jack|British APC passing by wrecked and abandoned vehicles along the "[[Highway of Death]]" in 1991.]]

The British Army contributed 50,000 troops to the coalition which fought [[Iraq]] in the [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/11/iraq.military|title=50,000 troops in Gulf illness scare|date=11 June 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029043911/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/11/iraq.military|archive-date=29 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and British forces controlled [[Kuwait]] after its liberation. Forty-seven British military personnel died during the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SUPREME+SACRIFICE%3B+British+soldier+killed+in+Iraq+was+unemployed+TA...-a0107281788|title=Supreme sacrifice: British soldier killed in Iraq was unemployed TA man|date=28 August 2003|publisher=Thefreelibrary.com|access-date=28 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430043927/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SUPREME+SACRIFICE%3B+British+soldier+killed+in+Iraq+was+unemployed+TA...-a0107281788|archive-date=30 April 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>