924 Ch. 22 • The Great War

Table 22.1. Casualties in the Great War

ALLIED POWERS

Country Mobilized Dead Wounded

POW/

Missing Total

%

Casualties

Russia 18,100,000 1,800,000 4,950,000 2,500,000 9,250,000 51.10

France 7,891,000 1,375,800 4,266,000 537,000 6,178,800 78.30

G.B., Emp.

and Dom. 8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 191,652 3,190,235 35.83

Italy 5,615,000 578,000 947,000 600,000 2,125,000 37.85

U.S. 4,273,000 114,000 234,000 4,526 352,526 8.25

Japan 800,000^3009073 1,210 0.15

Romania 1,000,000 250,706 120,000 80,000 450,706 45.07

Serbia 750,000 278,000 133,148 15,958 427,106 56.95

Belgium 365,000 38,716 44,686 34,659 118,061 32.35

Greece 353,000 26,000 21,000 1,000 48,000 13.60

Portugal 100,000 7,222 13,751 12,318 33,291 33.29

Montenegro 50,000 3,000 10,000 7,000 20,000 40.00

Total 48,201,467 5,380,115 12,830,704 3,984,116 22,194,935 46.05

CENTRAL POWERS

Germany

Austria­

13,200,000 2,033,700 4,216,058 1,152,800 7,402,558 56.08

Hungary 9,000,000 1,100,000 3,620,000 2,200,000 6,920,000 76.89

Turkey 2,998,000 804,000 400,000 250,000 1,454,000 48.50

Bulgaria 400,000 87,500 152,390 27,029 266,919 66.73

Total 25,598,000 4,025,200 8,388,448 3,629,829 16,043,477 62.67

Grand Total 73,799,467 9,405,315 21,219,152 7,613,945 38,238,412 51.81

Source: J. M. Winter, The Great War and the British People (London, Macmillan, 1985), p. 75.

months (in which 4 million soldiers fought, of whom more than a quarter

were killed, captured, or “disappeared”)- The carnage was not limited to the

European continent. In response to Armenian demands for an indepen­

dent state, in 1915 the Turks forced 1.75 million Armenians to leave their

homes in Turkey; more than a third of them perished without water in the

desert sun on the way to Syria.

The flower of European youth—or much of it—had perished in the war.

There were other costs as well. The economic structure of northern France

and part of Belgium had been chewed up in the fighting. The German

economy, which was devastated by the war, would be further crippled by

the terms of the peace treaty (see Chapter 24). The Carnegie Endowment

for International Peace made a brave attempt to calculate the war’s actual