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=====

• William Lockhart Bronner Hope
• 2/Lieutenant William Thomas Dent-Young. 11th Battalion AIF. Wounded in Gallipoli (twice). Killed by shellfire on 11th May 1917 during the second Battle of Bullecourt, aged 29.

Austria-Hungary 1,200,000

Belgium - 13.000

• Louis de lalieux de La Rocq

Bulgaria - 101,000

Canada - 67.000

• Arnold Henry Grant Kemball
• Lt Arthur Beaufin Irving
• L/Cpl Elias Nikanor Stromberg

The Caribbean - 1.000

French Empire - 1,385,000

• William Edward Fathers

Germany - 1,718,000

• Leut. P. Kuhlmey

Great Britain - 703,000

• Arthur Lumley Appleby
• Private Edgard Battersby 1st Battalion. Killed in action 29th April 1917 at Oppy, aged 37.Died of wounds received 24th April 1917
• Dennis E. Bush
• Harry Raine Cathrick
• Private Lancelot Proctor Dawbarn 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 9th May 1917 at the First Battle of Dorian (fought against Bulgaria), Salonika, Greece.
• James Arthur Graham
• Gerald Wynter Blathwayte
• John Clifford Browne private, 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, killed as a result of shellfire preceding a German attack on trenches at Boyeau, Sailly la Bourse.
• Harold Lewis Foxon Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Service Number Wales Z/2506, drowned 13 December 1917 when H.M.A.V. "Stephen Furness” was torpedoed by the German submarine UB-64 in the Irish Sea off the west coast of the Isle of Man.
• Edward Burgis 2nd Lieutenant, 18th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. 16 October 1917.
• Cyril John Bernard Cowley
• Wilfred Varnish Barrett
• Private Julius Henry Dent-Young "A" Company 1st Battalion 14th London Regiment. Wounded at Hulluch in September 1915. Killed on the first day of the Somme (1st July 1916)
• George William Dunn
• Lieutenant Bartle Laurie Stuart Frere 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 13th November 1916 at Beaumont Hamel.
• 2/ Lieutenant Edgar Frere. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Killed in Action, Arras on 22 May 1916.
• Captain Gilbert Frere 10th Bn., Rifle Brigade. Killed In Action, Merville on 26 October 1915.
• Private 21551 Jesse James Holman 1st Battalion,Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Died 27 September 1918 at Gouzeaucourt (Cambrai front).
• Sergeant Major Herbert James Juby MM (1884-1917) Joined Norfolk Regiment, transferred to 35th Coy. Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 30 November 1917, Cambrai, France.
• Thomas Oliver Newell
• Charles Tower Rayson Godden
• William John Little
• Thomas Cecil de Trafford
• Hugh Cecil Patterson
• Serjent Richard Gordon Pugsley 13th Battalion, Tank Corps. Killed in action on 25th April 1918 in Belgium
• Warwick William Robinson
• Lieutenant Norbert Gerald Shepard D" Howitzer Bty. 103rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery. Died from wounds 2 August 1916, Somme offensive
• Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho
• Daniel O.H.J McClinton L/Corporal London Regiment
• Private Lancelot Graham Harris Aged 20. Buried at La Clytte/De Klijte Military Cemetery, Ypres, West Flanders.
• Private Ambrose Newton Woodall 12th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, died of wounds
• Captain Philip Stafford Gordon Wainman Captain BT MAJ Worcestershire Regiment, 6th Battalion. Killed in action, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Greece - 5.000

India - 4.300

Italy - 460,000

Ireland

• See World War One - Armed Forces 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

• Peeter Rebane - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Albrecht Sarik / Saarik - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Jaan Kakri - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Jaan Brikker - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Eduard Plangi - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Johannes Pantalon - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Boris Soans - Estonia / Livonia Province
• Pearu August Pitka - Estonia / Livonia Province

Serbia - 128,000

Turkey - 336,000

USA - 117.000

• James Florance
• Joseph Warren Thornton
• Georgi medals IV 1914-1922 Russia names https://numismat.ru/gkimages/book/tom13.pdf