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  2. World War I casualties - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I ...

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    Although listing the names of dead soldiers on memorials had started with the Boer Wars, this practice was only systematically adopted after World War I, with the establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which was later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Due to the rapid movement of forces in the early stages of the war ...

  4. Attack of the Dead Men - Wikipedia

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    The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August 6, 1915. The incident got its name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after they were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases , chlorine and bromine ...

  5. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The cemetery contains the largest number of American military dead in Europe (14,246), [1] most of whom lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and were buried there. [ 2 ] The cemetery consists of eight sections behind a large central reflection pool.

  6. War photography - Wikipedia

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    Since early photographers were not able to create images of moving subjects, they recorded more sedentary aspects of war, such as fortifications, soldiers, and land before and after battle along with the re-creation of action scenes. Similar to battle photography, portrait images of soldiers were also often staged. In order to produce a ...

  7. Category : German military personnel killed in World War I

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