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From: "Delilah" <>
Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] GREATWAR Casualty figures
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:28:27 -0400
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SOURCE: WORLD WAR 1 - A VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

British Army
662,000 killed
1.65 million wounded



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From: "John Wilson" <>
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] GREATWAR Casualty figures


|
| Here are some figures for deaths compared with the age group total:
|
| World War One Deaths: from John Costello "Mask of Treachery" (1988)
| note 17 page 620-1. Death Rates: from J. M. Winter "World War One and
| the British People" (1986):
|
| Tthe military losses were:
| Britain: 723,000 (63 per 1000 males aged 15-49)
| France: 1,327,000 (133 per 1000 males aged 15-49)
| Germany: 2,037,000 (125 per 1000 males aged 15-49)
|
| Yours, John Wilson
|
| >
| > I am trying to find accurate figures for
| > men who served in WW1
| > men who were killed
| > the total male population in 1911 (nearest census to 1914).
| >
| > So far a trawl of the Internet has thrown up a problem - some
information
| is given for just England and Wales, other for the whole of the UK and so
| on. I need to be able to have some consistency (eg all figures only for
| England).
| >
| > What I am aiming for is to be able to compare the national statistics
with
| those for one small village in North Yorkshire so I can show whether its
| caualty rate was different from the national average.
| >
| > Does anyone have any ideas about where I can get such information
| >
| > Sue Laffey
| >
|
|
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