DOES THE WORLD REMEMBER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 4

DOES THE WORLD REMEMBER

BEFORE the actual casualty figures of the belligerent nations' engaged in World War II have been released it is. fitting to recall the tremendous figures of sacrifice in the " blood test of World War I which ended jtist over 26 years ago. In that gigantic elash the British Empire mobilised 8,904,000 men, of whom 1,089,918 were killed and 2,400,988 wounded. France mobilised 8„410,000 men with 1,393,383 dead and 1,490,000 wounded. Italy's figures were: Mobilised 5,615,000 deaths 460,000, wounded 947,000; United States 4,355,000, 115,660, 205,690; Belgium 267,000, 38,172, 44,686; Rumania 750,000, 335,706, no record; Serbia 707,000, 127,535, 133,148. Russia's casualties in World War I were never accurately recorded, but one list put down the number of dead as being approximately 1,70.0,000, 1,450,000 disabled, 3,500,000 wounded and 2,500„000 taken prisoner. For enemy countries the figures were: Germany mobilised 11,000,000, killed 2,050,366, wounded 4,202,028; Austria-Hungary 7„800,000, 1,200,000, no record; Bulgaria 1,200„000, 101,224, 152,400: Turkey 2,850,000, 300,000, 57„000. Subsequently in a, return prepared by the British War Office and published in 1923 the total casualties of the 12 chief belligerent countries were given as 42,119,273, and the death roll as 8,246,,471,