MichaelBully Posted 15 May , 2011 Share Posted 15 May , 2011 I am trying to find a figure for the number of British and Empire Great War dead where the body was not found and from that figure how many would be lost at sea? Any estimates & sources ? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 15 May , 2011 Share Posted 15 May , 2011 For the Naval casualties, that ought to be feasible but I do not believe there would be an exact figure for merchant ships. Numbers of crew and passengers will not be exact figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBully Posted 15 May , 2011 Author Share Posted 15 May , 2011 Point taken Tom, Any ideas for naval casualties? Thanks For the Naval casualties, that ought to be feasible but I do not believe there would be an exact figure for merchant ships. Numbers of crew and passengers will not be exact figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 16 May , 2011 Share Posted 16 May , 2011 Hello Michael For the Royal Navy casualties, the numbers of missing on the memorials at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham should give you a rough estimate, although they will include some missing from the Royal Naval Division (but these might be identifiable from their units). There is a Merchant Marine memorial on Tower Hill, opposite the Tower of London. I think it includes WW1 dead as well as WW2, but I don't know if it records all the dead (I think it may do) or just the missing. The CWGC may be able to help, at least with estimates. The bodies of some of the men "lost at sea" were washed up in various places such as Norway and Denmark, and even Latvia, and are buried in local cemeteries, the graves being under CWGC care. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 16 May , 2011 Share Posted 16 May , 2011 Hello Michael For the Royal Navy casualties, the numbers of missing on the memorials at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham should give you a rough estimate, although they will include some missing from the Royal Naval Division (but these might be identifiable from their units). There is a Merchant Marine memorial on Tower Hill, opposite the Tower of London. I think it includes WW1 dead as well as WW2, but I don't know if it records all the dead (I think it may do) or just the missing. The CWGC may be able to help, at least with estimates. The bodies of some of the men "lost at sea" were washed up in various places such as Norway and Denmark, and even Latvia, and are buried in local cemeteries, the graves being under CWGC care. Ron Won't cover British and Empire Great War dead in that Australian Navy casualties etc will not be included. Wasn't that the scope of the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 16 May , 2011 Share Posted 16 May , 2011 It was, centurion, but I never said that the sources I mentioned would include Empire casualties. Michael's posts asked for sources of naval casualties, and I gave some. It wasn't supposed to be a complete list. No doubt the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and similar sources for other Dominions (not forgetting India), could fill the gap, but I don't have details of these. Can you help at all? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 16 May , 2011 Share Posted 16 May , 2011 Not sure if definitive, but maybe useful. HUGE FILE Statistics of the military effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920 Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBully Posted 16 May , 2011 Author Share Posted 16 May , 2011 Thank you for all the replies . Helpful. Also makes me realise some of the complexities involved in trying to work out the numbers of Great War dead . Will also E mail CWGC- have had contact with them before- and see if they have any figures. Regards Michael Bully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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