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The names of the soldiers who died for France during World War I are listed on-line by the French government. [120] The Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis estimated that included in total French military deaths are 1,126,000 killed and died of wounds. [114]
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000. [91] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships.
The total number of deaths includes between 9 and 11 million military personnel, with an estimated civilian death toll of about 6 to 13 million. [ 245 ] [ 246 ] Of the 60 million European military personnel who were mobilised from 1914 to 1918, an estimated 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were ...
The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107. The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810.
Along with enemy action, many soldiers had to contend with new diseases: trench foot, trench fever and trench nephritis. When the war ended in November 1918 , British Army casualties, as the result of enemy action and disease, were recorded as 673,375 killed and missing , with another 1,643,469 wounded .
During the war, the U.S. mobilized over 4.7 million military personnel and suffered the loss of over 116,000 soldiers. [1] The war saw a dramatic expansion of the United States government in an attempt to harness the war effort and a significant increase in the size of the U.S. Armed Forces .
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