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Pages in category "German military personnel killed in World War I" The following 197 pages are in this category, out of 197 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
German military personnel killed in World War I (197 P) Pages in category "German military personnel of World War I" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total.
Wrecked German ammunition train at Technology during World War I, by Schutz Group photographers (edited by Durova) Red Cross recruiting poster for nurses at History of nursing , by David Henry Souter (edited by Durova and Steven Crossin )
Fallen British and Australian soldiers in a mass grave, dug by German soldiers, 1916 or 1917 ^ b Australia. The Australian War Memorial puts their war dead at 61,513. [19] The Australian War Memorial maintains a database listing the names of war dead. [113] The Commonwealth War Graves Commission figure for Australian war dead is 62,149. [11]
German military personnel killed in World War I (197 P) Pages in category "German casualties of World War I" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Approximately 2 million Germans and 1.3 million Frenchmen died during the war; 720,000 British soldiers died, 117,000 American soldiers were killed, and 61,000 Canadian, 60,000 Australian, and 18,000 New Zealand servicemen also died. [16] On the Eastern front, 300,000 Romanians died. [17]
The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107. The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810.
These data have been criticized by Imperial Russian Army general and military historian Golovin, who conducted a study together with German veterans in the archives of the central powers, and named a figure of 2,410,000 people. [128] When Russia withdrew from the war, ~2,500,000 Russian POWs were in German and Austrian hands.