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British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
1 wounded British sailor. Third Anglo-Burmese War: 1885 1887 First Boer War: 1880 1881 408 408 Anglo-Zulu War: 1879 1879 1,900 1,900 Second Anglo-Afghan War: 1878 1880 9,850 9,850 - Ref: Indian Rebellion of 1857: 1857 1858 11,021+ 11,021 + Source T.A.Heathcote Mutiny and Insurgency in India 1857-58, 2007 Pen & Sword military publishers Second ...
11 July 1918, at the age of 34. Died in service, of the Spanish flu. [41] 39 Francis Bennett-Goldney: MP for Canterbury since December 1910. Independent Unionist Major, Royal Army Service Corps 1865 27 July 1918, at the age of 51. Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Paris; died in a car accident in Brest. [42] 40 Oswald Cawley
The British lost 16,829 civilian dead; 1,260 civilians were killed in air and naval attacks, 908 civilians were killed at sea and there were 14,661 merchant marine deaths. [130] [131] Another 62,000 Belgian, 107,000 British and 300,000 French civilians died due to war-related causes. [132]
Under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918 the end of the war was defined for general purposes by the British parliament as 31 August 1921. This is the same date that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission uses for its casualty records. The following generals of the British Empire died between the armistice and 31 August ...
Analysis of death records from the Hundred Days (August - November 1918) suggests that around 60% of those who died were conscripts (many of the men "combed out" from rear echelon jobs and posted to the front lines in 1917-18 had volunteered earlier in the war), and that despite the recent lowering of the age limit for service on the Western ...
British casualties on the first day were the worst in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties, 19,240 of whom were killed. [52] [53] British survivors of the battle had gained experience and the BEF learned how to conduct the mass industrial warfare which the continental armies had been fighting since 1914. [51]
British artillery in action at the Battle of the Somme, 1916; ... 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. A further 460 Serbs were sentenced to death.