Title: World War One Statistics
Headings: World War One Statistics
World War One Statistics
Content: That day remains to be the deadliest day in France’s history in regards to military men killed. It has been said that 70% of those wounded or killed in combat was due to artillery gun fire. Somewhere between 5 and 6 million troops were mutilated for life because of this. 20,000 lives were lost due to the introduction of poison gas being used on the battlefield. While this is a low number compared to the overall losses, it is still a significant amount of bodies. Military people were not the only lives lost because of WWI. Millions of civilians were casualties of the fighting. One million Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish forces. Some historians believe that close to 5 million people were killed in the Russian Civil war. The Spanish influenza epidemic broke out at the end of the war and this caused another 20 to 40 million deaths among the populace that already was suffering from deprivation.