World War One - Casualties

Casualties of World War One

See also - World War 1 Main page

The aim of this project is to record the fatalities of World War 1 by country.

Africa - 10.000
South Africa - 7.000
  • Pvt Charles T Barnes 2nd Regt. South African Infantry
  • Pte William August Birkigt He served with the 2nd South African Infantry. He may be burried at a Commonwealth War Cemetary or was one of thousands whose bodies were never found or identified and named on the Menin Gate Memorrial. Died 20 September 1917 (19-20) Ypres, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium.
  • Cornelius Johannes Dewet Compaan No E.98 Sgd Sapper, 2nd S A R Wireless S A Engineers Malawi - Accidental Drowning
  • Lieutenant Douglas Bayley de Bruyn Royal Lancaster Regiment, transferred to 35 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Killed in a flying accident in Thetford, 27th May 1916, aged 20.
  • Pvt Albert Doubell fell in France on 21 March 1918 aged 23 in a German attack on Quentin Redoubt and Gauche Wood.
  • Hugh Drummond Scottish born Private, No 2478, 4th S A Infantry, he died of wounds in France
  • Reynier Johannes Deyzel Reynier Johannes Deyzel] Private No 13622, 2nd S A Infantry
  • Leonard William Entress, Private, 1st Regt., South African Infantry, Service No.: 13483, he died of wounds as a POW aged 19 on 13 April 1918
  • Lieutenant James Lawrence Hedding Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. Died of wounds caused by rifle grenade, Bethune, Pas de Calais, France
  • Shirley Spiro 1916, British East Africa.
  • Phillipus Cornelius van Vuuren Private in the 1st South African Infantry, (Private No: 20119) Aged 20, 24 October 1918, Europe.
Australia - 59.000 - see https://www.geni.com/projects/World-War-One-Casualties-Australia/56372=====
Austria-Hungary 1,200,000
Belgium - 13.000
Bulgaria - 101,000
Canada - 67.000
The Caribbean - 1.000
French Empire - 1,385,000
Germany - 1,718,000
Great Britain - 703,000
Greece - 5.000
India - 4.300
Italy - 460,000
Ireland
Japan - 250
Montenegro - 3.000
New Zealand - 18.000

See WW1 Roll of Honour New Zealand

EUROPE: Portugal - 7.000
Romania - 200.000
Russia - 1,700,000

Geni.com project: Estonians in the WWI

Serbia - 128,000
Turkey - 336,000
USA - 117.000