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Nearly 1,000 men were lost. [3] 1,000 maximum Military 1915 United Kingdom: HMT Royal Edward – a submarine sank the troop ship on 13 August, killing 935 people. 935 Military 1916 United Kingdom: HMS Defence – Armoured Cruiser, exploded in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May. 903 men were lost, there were no survivors. 903 Navy 1914 United Kingdom
British propaganda postcard entitled "The End of the 'Baby-Killer'" The SL 11 was based at Spich and commanded by Hauptmann Wilhelm Schramm.In the early hours of 3 September 1916, after jettisoning bombs over Essendon, Hertfordshire, destroying several houses, damaging a church, and killing two sisters aged 26 and 12, [1] [2] it was then shot down over nearby Cuffley by Lt. William Leefe ...
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."
The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military personnel. The civilian death toll was about 6 to 13 million. [1] [2] The Triple Entente (also known as the Allies) lost about 6 million military personnel while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead.
By October 1918, the end of the campaign, Allied losses for the year stood at 761,000 long tons (773,000 t). The Pola Flotilla had lost 11 boats, and the KuK a further 3. [8] In October, the Central Powers were on the verge of collapse; Bulgaria and the Ottomans had sued for peace, and the Austrians were about to do the same.
In 1918, they were rarely able to sink more than 300,000 long tons (300,000 t). Between May 1917 and the end of the war on 11 November 1918, only 154 of 16,539 vessels convoyed across the Atlantic had been sunk, of which 16 were lost through the natural perils of sea travel and a further 36 because they were stragglers. [1]
Prior to World War I, a series of conferences were held at Whitehall in 1905–1906 concerning military co-operation with France in the event of a war with Germany. The Director of Naval Intelligence, Charles Ottley, asserted that two of the Royal Navy's functions in such a war would be the capture of German commercial shipping and the blockade of German ports.
Eighty-four airships took part, of which 30 were either shot down or lost in accidents. [3] Aeroplanes carried out 52 raids, dropping 2,772 bombs of 73.5 long tons (74.7 t) weight for the loss of 62 aircraft, killing 857 people, injuring 2,058, and causing £1,434,526 of damage. [ 2 ]