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Karl Baedeker (scientist) Hartmuth Baldamus. Fritz Bartholomae. Maximilian Bayer. Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay. Paul Berger (sculptor) Fritz Otto Bernert. Hans Berr. Albert von Berrer.
The military casualties of the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal include Africans who served with their armed forces, the details are noted above in the list of the various colonies. Fallen British and Australian soldiers in a mass grave, dug by German soldiers, 1916 or 1917 ^ b Australia. The Australian War Memorial puts their war dead ...
Heinrich Biltz. Hugo Blaschke. Kurt Blome. Wipert von Blücher. Heinrich Blume. John Brahm. Curt Bräuer. Otto Bräutigam. Friedrich Burmeister (politician)
Albert Mayer (soldier) 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.
On August 22, 1914, during the Battle of the Frontiers, five separate French armies engaged the German invaders independently of each other. Across all those battlefields, on that single day, 27,000 French soldiers lost their lives protecting their country. [1] The term casualty in warfare is often misunderstood.
Pages in category "German casualties of World War I". The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
They each lasted most of the year, achieved minimal gains, and drained away the best soldiers of both sides. Verdun became the iconic symbol of the murderous power of modern defensive weapons, with 280,000 German casualties, and 315,000 French. At the Somme, there were over 400,000 German casualties, against over 600,000 Allied casualties.
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st ...