Extracts from the 4th Annual Report of the
Imperial War Graves Commission.
6\
The Ypres Times. 41
CASUALTIES
The total casualties during the War were over three millions, including Native African followers
and Mercantile Marine. Of these the death casualties, as ascertained to July, 5923, were approximately
1,019,268, divided
as follows
Royal
Government.
Military
Naval
Naval
R.A.F.
Mercantile
Followers.
Total.
Forces.
Division.
Forces.
Marine.
t
United Kingdom
696,293
8,723
38,859
5,695
15,168
94
764,832
Indian Empire
62,056*
271
62,327
Canada
56,639
174
56,813
Australia
59,33o
147
63
59,540
New Zealand
16,711
16
2
16,729
South Africa
7,121
6
3
7,I3°
Newfoundland
1,204
120
1,324
Other British
Possessions
5,022
45,551
50,573
Totals
904,376
8,723
39,593
5.695
15,168
45,713
1,019,268
Including followers.
■f Including a few members of civil organisations.
REGISTERED GRAVES.
The total number of graves which had been located and registered in the various areas up to
the 31st March, 1923. are as follows:
Idealised.
ïLiidenüfied.
Total.
Identified.
Unidentified.
Total.
•Great Britain
50,;o:
3.003
62,508
fRussia (territory in
♦Ireland
3,"
IS/
3.298
Europe under
France Belgium
393,211
130,927
524,138
Soviet rule)
463
I
464
Germany
6,511
6,511
fCaucasian Republics
206
31
237
Denmark
53
14
"67
Gallipoli
8,979
I4,IOI
23,080
Holland
132
188
320
{Turkey (in Europe
Norway
79
84
163
and Asia)
2,586
482
3,068
Sweden
42
31
73
Syria
1,114
71
1,185
Finland
3
5
8
flraq
S, 15 i
674
8,825
Esthonia
15
15
f Palestine
9.789
1,201
10,990
Latvia
27
1
28
Arabia (excluding
Memel Area
1
-
1
Aden and Muscat)
130
2
132
Poland
220
3
223
Aden
5
5
Danzig Free City
14
14
Muscat
1
i
Czecho-Slovakia
1
1
t Persia
453
1
454
Austria
10
10
India
4,051
39
4,090
Hungary
5
5
Ceylon
64
64
Switzerland
84
84
(-Asiatic Russia (in
Yugo Slavia
158
11
169
cluding Vladivos
Albania
2
2
tok Turkestan)
53
53
Italy
3,504
3,567
China
112
112
Spain
39
40
Malay States
56
56
Gibraltar
3CI
301
{Australia and Man
Malta
1,887
4
1,891
dated Territory
1,380
1,380
Roumania
17
56
73
{New Zealand and
Bulgaria
210
3
213
Mandated Terri
00
O
Greece (including
Macedonia)
8,602
592
9U94
tory
Fiji Islands
1,803
1
z
Aegean Islands
i,i74
376
1.55°
Society Islands
i
I
Crete
18
1
19
{Newfoundland
115
1 '5
Cyprus
29
29
{Canada
7,ooc
7,°°o
