Afghanistan Veterans Community

This page shows Afghanistan Veterans Community at geo: 51.4931,-0.1492. A four decimal point latitude and longitude coordinate is precise to approximately ten metres. The map uses data from OpenStreetMap and is rendered with Mapbox when ‘Plain map’ is selected. ‘Detailed map’ uses OSM Carto, which is more complete in most parts of the world and place names are shown in their original language.

The community for Afghanistan Veterans created by Afghanistan Veterans. 150,000 UK Armed Forces personnel served over the 20‑year campaign in Afghanistan, the largest deployment of UK troops in living memory. This is a diverse group of veterans from across the UK, Commonwealth, all three Services of the Armed Forces and the Reserves and saw women regularly on the front line in the most intense period of fighting for a generation. 457 paid the ultimate sacrifice, with many more living with life changing injuries.

The charity conducted a report into Afghanistan Veterans with extensive research and support by M&C Saatchi World Services, which revealed a difficult truth, that 92% of UK Afghanistan Veterans believe that their sacrifices will be forgotten.