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The military casualties of the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal include Africans who served with their armed forces, the details are noted above in the list of the various colonies. 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 ...
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The attack resulted in 137 fatalities and 592 casualties. The raid was in violation of the ninth section of the 1907 Hague Convention which prohibited naval bombardments of undefended towns without warning, [62] because only Hartlepool was protected by shore batteries. [63] Germany was a signatory of the 1907 Hague Convention. [64]
They each lasted most of the year, achieved minimal gains, and drained away the best soldiers of both sides. Verdun became the iconic symbol of the murderous power of modern defensive weapons, with 280,000 German casualties, and 315,000 French. At the Somme, there were over 400,000 German casualties, against over 600,000 Allied casualties.
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.
Monument to the 674 civilian casualties of Dinant's "Teutonic fury" on August 23, 1914, including 116 shot on this site.. From August 5 to 26, 1914, the Imperial German Army put more than 5,000 civilians under fire in a hundred Walloon villages and destroyed more than 15,000 houses, including 600 in Visé and 1,100 in Dinant, which represents 70% of the destruction carried out in France and ...
Fickle winds and inexperience led to more British casualties from the gas than German. [41] French, British and German forces all escalated the use of gas attacks through the rest of the war, developing the more deadly phosgene gas in 1915, then the infamous mustard gas in 1917, which could linger for days and could kill slowly and painfully ...
On March 30, the 328th captured 12 more towns as the Allied offensive into Germany continued to gather momentum. [44] On April 1, the 328th Infantry advanced through eight more towns as German resistance became sporadic. [44] On April 4, the regiment cleared the North Fulda Woods of German resistance and captured four nearby towns. [44]