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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 ...
Please add the profiles of people who died as a Prisoner of War. If a known cause of death, please add the person to a project for that condition also (ie, of disease or of wounds).==* See: Died in War by Disease From: * Wikipedia - Prisoner-of-war camp * Wikipedia - Prisoner of War A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, wh...
Please add profiles for those who died as a POW in the US Civil War.=== Please also include any pertinent info in their About section relating to this, include the camp if known.If the cause of their death is know, please add them to that project (ie: died of disease, or died of wounds, etc.) Although precise figures may never be known, an estimated 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons, a c...
Please add the profiles of those who died as a result of disease during a war.= == Profiles added to this project may also be added to one of the Infectious disease projects. ==* For example see (there may be others not listed here): Typhus , Typhoid or Typhoid Fever , Dysentery , Cholera , Influenza (Flu) , Gangrene , Malaria , Bubonic plague , Pneumonia