BRITISH CASUALTIES IN THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 7

BRITISH CASUALTIES IN THE WAR

TOTAL OP "865,-WO KILLED.

Tho approximate number of British casualties sri all theatres during the period of the war were given by Sir Archibald Williamson in reply to a question in Parliamentary debates. The details show that of -the Regular and Territorial' Forces there were: . Killed (including died from wounds and died from other causes), 34,206 officers and 641,229 other ranks; Wounded, 80,596 officers and 1,567,818 other ranks; . Missing (presumed dead owing to lapse of time), 4140 officers and 90,807 other ranks; and Prisoners captured, 6017 officers and \G1;317 other ranks. Of the Canadian Contingent there were killed: 2885 officers and 53,511- other ranks; wounded, 6310 officers and 143,386 other ranks; and prisoners, 238 officers and 7516 other ranks. ~,.„, ' Tho Australian Contingent had killed, 2828 officers and 55,318 other ranks; wounded, 630* officers and 145,867 other ranks; and prisoners, 173 officers and 3911 other ranks. From Now Zealand there were killed, 735 officers and 15,401 other ranks; wounded, 1688 officers and 39,061 other ro.uks; and prisoners, 12 officers and 490 other ranks. _ Other colonial contingents had ofhcers killed and 8579 other ranks; wounded, 720 officers and 13,857 other ranks; and prisoners, 77 officers and 1041 other ranks. . , , ~ T, 1 The casualties sustained by the Koyal Naval Division were: Killed. 423 officers and GG2O, other ranks; wounded. 777 officers and 19,388 other ranks; missing, 38 officers and 1427 other ranks; and prisoners, 61 officers and 3009 other ranks. Of the Tndian and native., troops, the officers killed numbered 09f. and the other ranks 42,512; wounded. 1471 officers and 03.704 other rante: miss'ing (including prisoners), of which further details are awaited from India, -40 officers and 5834 other ranks; and prisoners, 258 officers and 12,130 other ranks. ■These figures give a total number of British mid colonial iiliieers killed. 40,150 and other ranks, 819,010, a grand lolal of. 865,490.