G.+Appendices


 * __G: Appendices__**

//[Appendix A]

Extract from “Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves, page 186 in Penguin Classics edition printed in 2000.

“//Next to me lay a Royal Welch second-lieutenant named O.M. Roberts, who had joined the battalion only a few days before the show. He told me about High Wood; he had reached the fringe when he got wounded in the groin and fell into a shell-hole. Some time during the afternoon he covered consciousness and saw a German staff officer working round the edge of the wood, killing off the wounded with an automatic pistol. Some of the Royal Welch were, apparently, not lying as still as wounded men should, but sniping. They owed the enemy a grudge; a section of German had pretended to surrender but, when within range, started throwing stink-bombs. The officer worked nearer, He saw Roberts move, came toward him, fired, and hit him in the arm, Roberts, very weak, tugged at his Webley. He had great difficulty in getting it out of the holster. The German fired again and missed. Roberts rested the Webley against the lip of the shell-hole and tried to pull the trigger, but lacked the strength. The German was only five paces of, the shot took the top of his head off. Roberts fainted.”

//[Appendix B]

Source from "The First World War" by Ian Cawood and David McKinnon-Bell, page 151, first published in 2001.//

Source G: casualty figures for the European Great Powers.

// *Total casualties includes prisoners, wounded and missing. //
 * || Total of mobilized forces || Killed and died || Total Casualties* || Total casualties as % of total mobilised ||
 * Russia || 12,000,000  ||  1,700,000  ||  9,150,000  ||  76.3%  ||
 * France || 8,410,000  ||  1,357,800  ||  6,160,800  ||  73.3%  ||
 * British Empire || 8,904,467  ||  908,371  ||  3,190,235  ||  35.8%  ||
 * Germany || 11,000,000  ||  1,773,700  ||  7,142,558  ||  64.9%  ||
 * Total of all combatant countries || 65,038,810  ||  8,538,315  ||  37,494,186  ||  57.6%  ||