• the Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of members of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack?
• the first British fighter pilot to die in World War II was killed in a friendly fire incident known as the Battle of Barking Creek?
• when Royal Navy Captain Robert Corbet was killed in action in September 1810, rumours were spread that he had been murdered by his own crew?
• over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
• in the 1894–95 Madagascar expedition, France lost only 25 men in combat, but as many as 4,800 men to diseases?
• Major General Keith L. Ware, who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, was the first U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War?
• Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, who was killed in action in World War I, lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War, while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II?
• Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan, is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War?

Facts on topics related to Killed in action

Nationality

• Karel Kuttelwascher was the most famous World War II flying ace of Czech nationality?