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The report of the UK War Office listed 33,291 casualties: 7,222 dead (1,689 in Europe and 5,533 in Africa); 13,751 wounded (figure for Europe only) and 12,318 prisoners and missing (6,678 in Europe and "a large number of missing in Mozambique).
World War I - Casualties, Armistice, Legacy: The casualties suffered by the military in World War I are estimated to be about 8,500,000 soldiers who died as a result of wounds and/or disease. The number of civilian deaths is uncertain but has been estimated to be around 13,000,000, largely caused by starvation, exposure, disease, military ...
In the course of the war, the pandemic killed a total of 45,000 American troops and 14,000 Germans, and as many as 100,000 soldiers on both sides, according to Dutch medical...
Approximately 8.8 million of these deaths were of military personnel, while six million civilians died as a direct result of the war; mostly through hunger, disease and genocide. The German...
On June 28, 1914, the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist. The resulting local crisis between Austria-Hungary and Serbia will rapidly engulf nearly all the powers of Europe by drawing two great alliance systems into mortal combat.
There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded, according to estimates by the Reperes Association. That number includes 9.7 million military deaths and about 10 million civilian deaths, due to related causes such as disease, famine, massacres and naval blockades.
Military casualties reported in official sources list deaths due to all causes, including an estimated 7 to 8 million combat related deaths (killed or died of wounds) and another two to three million military deaths caused by accidents, disease and deaths while prisoners of war.