Skipman Posted 22 March , 2013 Share Posted 22 March , 2013 From the wonderful archive.org Statistics of the military effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920 (1922) A searchable, whopping 73.7MB-Enjoy Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 22 March , 2013 Share Posted 22 March , 2013 For best results Right click on PDF Left click on Save link as Save as document It might take a minute or two. I have quite a fast connection speed, so took about a minute. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 22 March , 2013 Share Posted 22 March , 2013 I have the reprint (London Stamp Exchange, about 1990) which cost a mind-boggling £85 back then. Great browsing material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 I've just bought an even more mind-bogglingly expensive original edition for £249 (yes I know, more money than sense but I don't know if the reprint has all the fold-out charts). However it is a truly remarkable work. It contains just about every piece of information you could want on the war from how many recipients there were for every medal type (only 1 man won the MM 4 times) to how many pairs of woolen underwear were issued - 40,097,483 pairs! There are also some rather more sombre facts. Regarding executions, just under 11% of those Imperial troops condemned were actually executed whereas from the Native Labour Corps 77% of the Chinese & 100% of the 'Coloured' were put to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Fascinating stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 The disparity between the total of deaths it tabulates ( 947,000?) and the CWGC figure in excess of 1.1 million troubles me somewhat. I know the time span was different, but not enough to accout for a disparity of about one sixth, surely ? Phil (PJA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Regarding executions, just under 11% of those Imperial troops condemned were actually executed whereas from the Native Labour Corps 77% of the Chinese & 100% of the 'Coloured' were put to death. This was a " White Man's" war. Why, I ask, did they decide to reprieve so many of the Chinese ? What were the absolute numbers ? Phil (PJA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 The disparity between the total of deaths it tabulates ( 947,000?) and the CWGC figure in excess of 1.1 million troubles me somewhat. I know the time span was different, but not enough to accout for a disparity of about one sixth, surely ? Phil (PJA) I don't have my copy of Statistics to hand but I recall that many (most?) of the tables don't include the RN and (Edit) Merchant Marine and RND etc..... Also some tables exclude Overseas Dominions etc..... Not sure if the 947,0000 includes these. The CWGC data would of course include everyone in theory. MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 This was a " White Man's" war. Why, I ask, did they decide to reprieve so many of the Chinese ? What were the absolute numbers ? Phil (PJA) 2,690 Imperial Troops were sentenced to death of whom 291 were executed. From the Native Labour Corps: 13 Chinese were sentenced with 10 being carried out & for 'Coloured' 4 were sentenced & executed. From the total number of executions only 3 were officers, 2 for desertion & 1 for murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 11 April , 2013 Share Posted 11 April , 2013 I don't have my copy of Statistics to hand but I recall that many (most?) of the tables don't include the RN and Mercantile Marine and RND etc..... Also some tables exclude Overseas Dominions etc..... Not sure if the 947,0000 includes these. The CWGC data would of course include everyone in theory. MG From memory, Martin, the Statistics give 908,000 dead in the Army, 32,000 in the Navy and 7,000 in the RAF. The addition of some fifteen thousand for the Merchant Marine would stll leave us 150,000 short of the CWGC total. They weren't on the radar of the Statistics, apparently. I notice that data from CWGC do not correlate with official casualty returns for the big battles. Not that I would expect them to be in exact agreement. The registers of the CWGC tend to give rather larger totals of dead in the Somme and Passchedaele than the official statistics for those battles imply, although the disparity is not too great. Do you have the CWGC figures for Gallipoli ? Those buried or commemorated there would not include men who died from wounds in hospitals in Egypt, Malta or Lemnos. It would be revealing to see how they compare with data from the Medical Statisitcs. Phil (PJA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seany Posted 11 April , 2013 Share Posted 11 April , 2013 Mike well done for posting - this is a fascinating read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalyback Posted 11 April , 2013 Share Posted 11 April , 2013 If reading on a kindle, download the PDF version not the kindle version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronan McGreevy Posted 26 March , 2014 Share Posted 26 March , 2014 Hi, My name is Ronan McGreevy from The Irish Times. I will be covering many of the issues surrounding the centenary of The Great War. I have found this forum to be enormously helpful. I hope to bring many of the discussions that you have here to a wider audience closer to the anniversary itself. If anybody wishes to contact me in relation to anything my email address is rmcgreevy@irishtimes.com. I was out in Ypres and Mons last week doing some filming and I made this little video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROD WEALE Posted 4 May , 2014 Share Posted 4 May , 2014 Glad I asked ! Seemed to stimulate a great deal of interest. I've downloaded the book - thanks and thanks to all who posted hints and info'. Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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