In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, an armistice was signed. The "war to end all wars" was over
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WWI and WWII military deathscool_mooseNovember 13 2007, 08:46:49 UTC
Trench warfare in WWI was a terrible curse - with gas, bullets and mortars raining down. Both Canada and Britain lost more in WWI ... not so for the US, who were later participants. In spite of better (worse?) weaponry in WWII, 2.5% of those enlisted in US died. It was a bit over 3% of Americans in WWI. In Britain/Canada, it was over 10%
Country.....enlisted Dead ....% total population WW1 United Kingdom......885,000...... 2 % Canada ..............65,000...... 1 % United States.......116,000...... 0.1%
WW2 United Kingdom......382,000...... O.94% Canada...............45,300...... 0.40% United States.......407,000...... 0.32%
I don't really know what my ancestors were doing during WWI. All of them were in Russia or (what's now) Ukraine, and the best I could figure out is that everyone was too old or too young to have fought in the War to End All Wars.
Timing is everything in this world. I was 2 when WW2 broke out and Korea was over when I was 16. I joined the Cdn. Reserve Army for a couple of years in '54 - but that consisted of 'trooping the colours' and marching around to martial music and looking cool in 'Scarlets and Bearskins' in the Grenadier Guards. Hopefully this century will be less bloody than the last one.
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Country.....enlisted Dead ....% total population
WW1
United Kingdom......885,000...... 2 %
Canada ..............65,000...... 1 %
United States.......116,000...... 0.1%
WW2
United Kingdom......382,000...... O.94%
Canada...............45,300...... 0.40%
United States.......407,000...... 0.32%
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I don't really know what my ancestors were doing during WWI. All of them were in Russia or (what's now) Ukraine, and the best I could figure out is that everyone was too old or too young to have fought in the War to End All Wars.
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I joined the Cdn. Reserve Army for a couple of years in '54 - but that consisted of 'trooping the colours' and marching around to martial music and looking cool in 'Scarlets and Bearskins' in the Grenadier Guards.
Hopefully this century will be less bloody than the last one.
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