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The official list of First World War casualties, published by HMSO in 1921 in 80 volumes organised by regiment, Soldiers Died in the Great War on Find My Past, Ancestry and Naval and Military Press (£)
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5 days ago · 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.
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Dec 7, 2022 · Category: United States in World War I, 1917 to 1918. "Soldiers of the Great War" (3 Volumes) by Haulsee, Howe, and Doyle lists soldiers that died in WWI with their name, rank, town and cause of death. Photos of some of the soldiers are also included. The volumes are arranged by state with photographs of soldiers followed by a list of casualties.
Casualties With Life Story links With images; Tuesday 4 August 1914: 37: 3: 1: Wednesday 5 August 1914: 9: 7: 0: Thursday 6 August 1914: 160: 146: 19: Friday 7 August 1914: 6: 1: 1: Saturday 8 August 1914: 9: 6: 0: Sunday 9 August 1914: 8: 5: 1: Monday 10 August 1914: 10: 3: 1: Tuesday 11 August 1914: 7: 5: 1: Wednesday 12 August 1914: 14: 8: 7 ...
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The casualty returns from units in the field were compiled into lists that were produced by the War Office and reproduced in many newspapers. They include the names of men killed, died of wounds, wounded or missing. They also included amendments: for example if a man once declared as missing was now reported as a prisoner of war. A casualty’s detai...
Free of charge: Original War Office lists of men who died, were wounded or declared missing are held on microfilm at the British Library (formerly from the National Newspaper Library collection). To search them it would be necessary to know an approximate date. The National Library of Scotland has digitised copies of the 1917 and 1918 lists. They a...
Driver 2482 Frederick Baker of the Royal Field Artillery died as a result of a head wound at 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station on 5 October 1917. He appeared in the War Office daily casualty list of 10 November 1917. Lance Sergeant 7938 Albert Baker of the Scots Guards was killed in action on 18 December 1914.
If a man was declared missing and his death was eventually officially presumed, the former would appear in the lists but the latter not. In such a case it is worth seeing if there is an enquiry card held in the records of the International Committee of the Red Cross (see details), as although it will be marked “negative” it may include details of n...
WW2 War Office Casualty Lists 1939 - 1947. Sourced from collection WO 417 held at The National Archives, these documents contain records from the war years of 1939 to 1947 and list casualties sustained by the British Army during the Second World War. There are volumes for Officers and Nurses, with separate volumes for Other Ranks.
First World War Weekly Casualty Lists from 1917-1919 published in four volumes by His Majesty's Stationery Office. These lists contain the names of British service personnel who were reported as wounded, missing, taken prisoner of war, or killed in action. From September 1914, several national newspapers published the Daily War Office Casualty ...
