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Killed in action (KIA ) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own combatants at the hands of hostile forces.===* NATO definition: a battle casualty as when a combatant is killed outright or who dies as a result of wounds or other injuries before reaching a medical treatment facility or help from fellow soldiers.* The United States Department o...
Please do not add profiles to this project. This is an “umbrella" project. Add the profile(s) to one of the following project/categories listed. ==* Civilian War Casualties * Died as Prisoner of War (POW) * Killed by Disease * Killed in Action (KIA) * Died from War Wounds (KBW, DOW, DWRIA)* Missing in Action (MIA) (presumed deceased)* Shot at Dawn ===If you do not find a project or category tha...
Military History Journal Vol 9 No 3 - June 1993 (incorporating Museum Review) THE BATTLE OF SILKAATSNEK - 11 JULY 1900 by I.B. Copley, Dept. Neurosurgery, Medunsa Introduction After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the British forces found themselves in command of most strategic points, but with enormously extended lines of communication. In the Western Transvaal, communications were mainta...