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Albert Otto Walter Mayer (24 April 1892 – 2 August 1914) was the first soldier of Imperial German Army and first soldier of the world to die in World War I.He died one day before the German Empire formally declared war on France, in the same skirmish in which Jules-André Peugeot became the first French soldier to die.
Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m. [ 2 ] [ 4 ]
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.
According to a declassified file Harland-Dunaway got access to, a soldier named Max Cohen described seeing roughly 70 German prisoners machine-gunned by the 11th Armored Division in Chenogne. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded a full investigation, but the 11th Armored were uncooperative ...
Private George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War.He died at 09:30 am (90 minutes before the armistice came into effect), shot by a sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.
He was the second most highly decorated British private of the First World War [4] and is most commonly remembered as the soldier who allegedly spared Adolf Hitler's life during the first world war. Born with the family name of Tandy, he later changed his surname to Tandey after problems with his father, [ 5 ] [ vague ] and because of this ...
The U.S. military on Thursday identified a soldier killed when a truck hit her Stryker armored vehicle on a highway in southern Germany. U.S. Army Europe said that 1st Lt. Hailey Hodsden, a ...
While Parr is believed to be the first British Army soldier to have been killed in action, he was not the first such British Armed Forces casualty during the war, as on 6 August 1914 the British cruiser HMS Amphion (1911) hit a German mine and sank, killing about 150 sailors of the Royal Navy. Nor was he the first British soldier to lose his ...