Their names are not carved on the city's Cenotaphs like their brothers in arms who fell in the First and Second World Wars. But they too paid the ultimate price for serving their country.
The theatres of conflict where they died came after 1945 - Palestine, Korea, Suez, Malaysia, the streets of Northern Ireland, and Afghanistan.
But all 29 had links to the towns which make up the borough of Salford. They were either born in the city, lived or worked there, or are buried there.
An 18-year-old died in one of the most savage battles of the Korean War in a brutally cold winter 72 years ago. Seven were killed while serving during The Troubles in Northern Ireland; and two in Afghanistan.
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