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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.
American Civil War: 0.6–1 million [87] [88] 1861–1865 United States vs. Confederate States: North America Mozambican Civil War: 0.5–1 million [89] [90] 1977–1992 People's Republic of Mozambique, later Republic of Mozambique, and allies vs. RENAMO and allies Mozambique First Sudanese Civil War: 0.5–1 million [91] [92] 1955–1972
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
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By the end of 1916, Russian casualties totalled nearly five million killed, wounded or captured, with major urban areas affected by food shortages and high prices. In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas ordered the military to forcibly suppress a wave of strikes in Petrograd but the troops refused to fire on the crowds. [ 1 ]
Joseph Oklahombi (May 1, 1895 - April 13, 1960) was a Choctaw soldier in the United States Army during the First World War. [1] He was the most-decorated World War I soldier from Oklahoma . One of the Choctaw code talkers , he served in Company D, First Battalion, 141st Regiment , Seventy-first Brigade of the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division ...
The Canadians suffered 9,198 casualties but managed to inflict up to 25,000 German casualties, including 1,369 German prisoners. [125] Six Victoria Crosses were also awarded, to Harry W. Brown , Robert Hill Hanna , Frederick Hobson , Okill Massey Learmonth , Michael James O'Rourke , and Filip Konowal , the only Ukrainian ever to receive the ...
The Russian casualties in the First World War are difficult to estimate, due to the poor quality of available statistics. Cornish gives a total of 2,006,000 military dead (700,000 killed in action, 970,000 died of wounds, 155,000 died of disease and 181,000 died while POWs).