warbuff1 Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 Just pondering the thought that almost 1 million allied soldiers died and over 2 million were wounded and was thinkin if anyone knows if these figures were ever split into number of dead/wounded per County? i.e Yorkshire/Lancashire etc Wayne
John_Hartley Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 I think the short answer is "no". The longer answer might to ponder on how you could ever work it out. By county of residence? Birth? Enlistment? It'd be a bu&&er trying to work out Stockport's - the town being split by the Mersey between it's Cheshire and Lancashire bits. J
warbuff1 Posted 5 February , 2008 Author Posted 5 February , 2008 So you won't be volunteering then John? . Can see where you coming from there though. How about Regiments/Corps has that ever been done?And before anyone says i not volunteering for the job either Wayne
Andrew Hesketh Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 'Soldiers Died in the Great War' were originally published by regiment ad the modern CD version allows for speedy regimental or battalion searches, e.g. the Sherwood Foresters lost 10,686.
warbuff1 Posted 5 February , 2008 Author Posted 5 February , 2008 Ok cheers Andrew, Will have to invest in one of those at some point. Or find a dodgy Pal willing to Burn a copy Not that i would ever condone such an action Wayne
Gunner Bailey Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 Just pondering the thought that almost 1 million allied soldiers died and over 2 million were wounded and was thinkin if anyone knows if these figures were ever split into number of dead/wounded per County? i.e Yorkshire/Lancashire etc Wayne Have a look at this link, which does give a good breakdown by country. Not sure if anyone ever went into more detail in this country as it could have been socially sensitive. Might be interesting to you. http://www.grande-guerre.org/Pertes/General.htm The author was Baron Des Lyon de Feuchin who did the work in 1924 in his work : Rapport sur le Bilan des Pertes en Morts et en Blessés des Nations Belligérantes, Journal Officiel, Documents Parlementaires, Annexe n° 335, 1924. He's buried in my village cemetary in France,(very grand tomb). Gunner Bailey
warbuff1 Posted 5 February , 2008 Author Posted 5 February , 2008 Cheers Gunner interesting read and so so many casualities of all nationalities. Really brings the numbers home Wayne
John_Hartley Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 Not that i would ever condone such an action I know for a certain fact that Andy Hesketh and I share the same righteous view of copyright theft. Returning to a serious aspect, the difficulty in looking at a county regiment is that it can't take into account later recruits. So, for example, you might look at the Sherwoods and find that for the first couple of years of the war it was mainly Notts & Derby men killed but after conscription came in they could have come from anywhere. It'd make it a very difficult exercise. Perhaps those who have built regimental databases could pull some figures out? John
Andrew Hesketh Posted 5 February , 2008 Posted 5 February , 2008 I know for a certain fact that Andy Hesketh and I share the same righteous view of copyright theft. Absolutely.
warbuff1 Posted 5 February , 2008 Author Posted 5 February , 2008 This def a major project..If anyone got a spare 25 years or so to devote to it..lol Wayne
Neil Mackenzie Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 Does anyone have a breakdown of casualties/deaths year on year? During the bit of work I have done for the IFTC project the 1918 deaths seem to be as great if not greater than those of 1916 and 1917 but that may not be true overall of course. Thanks. Neil
John_Hartley Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 Neil I've recently been collating some information on my Stockport men. Whilst I wasnt undertaking a statistical exercise, I was also struck by the surprisingly high number of 1918 deaths and, in particular from the summer onwards. John
johnreed Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 Look for the information in the book "Statisttics 1914-1920" of the military effort of the British Empire during the Great War it has all the facts and figures that will kep you going for years. John
Clive Maier Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 Does anyone have a breakdown of casualties/deaths year on year? ...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 Clive. Many thanks for the info - I assume the figures include Commonwealth countries as well. Neil
Clive Maier Posted 6 February , 2008 Posted 6 February , 2008 No Neil. Commonwealth dead amounted to a further 198,440 thus: Australia: 53,560 Canada: 58,990 India: 62,060 New Zealand: 16,710 South Africa: 7,120 Source: The World War I Databook, Ellis & Cox, Aurum, 1-85410-766-6
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