Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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Now, we know that 58,000 died in the war, but soon figures started to fly around about the large numbers of suicides among veterans.
Here's Simon Wesley, director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research at King's College London.
Well, for that reason, Tim, the usual comparison, and it's the comparison that Simon Wesley was making, is between former military personnel who served in the war and former military personnel who didn't.
So there's an effort to compare like with like here.
That's right, although for what it's worth, the claim is true.
More British Gulf War veterans have killed themselves than were killed on operations.
48 people died on active duty, and 10 years after the war ended, 189 veterans had killed themselves.
Simon Wesley again.
It does seem to be in the same ballpark.
We just have better statistics for Vietnam because the absolute figures are higher.
Well, you've changed the subject there because we're now talking about people actively serving rather than veterans.
But the answer is quite the reverse.
In the UK, the suicide rate is lower, not higher.
Simon Wesley explains why.
Yes, but don't expect to learn too much.
Like Vietnam, the Falklands conflict was a long time ago, but it was much smaller and so statistical tools will be less effective.
It will be hard to be confident about attributing suicide among veterans to their combat experience.
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