Title: WW1 facts and numbers: Remembering how many died, WW1 soldiers and the mind-blowing scale of the war this Armistice Day | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard
Headings: WW1 facts and numbers: Remembering how many died, WW1 soldiers and the mind-blowing scale of the war this Armistice Day
WW1 facts and numbers: Remembering how many died, WW1 soldiers and the mind-blowing scale of the war this Armistice Day
When did WW1 start and end?
How many soldiers fought in WW1?
How many died in WW1?
How many soldiers were wounded in WW1?
How many countries fought in WW1?

Content: A total of more than 21 million troops were wounded, and it is thought that around 1.5 million of these were British. The total number of military and civilian casualties from WW1, including the wounded, is a mind-blowing 40 million people, that's more than half the number of all those who fought. Disease is thought to have killed around two million troops. Men from the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench on the first day of the Battle of the Somme / Alamy
The first day of the Battle of the Somme remains the worst day in British military history, with British forces suffering around 57,000 casualties in just one day of fighting. During the Battle of Amiens in August 1918 there were 27,000 casualties, while the Gallipoli campaign saw nearly 400,000 casualties and Brusilov Offensive in 1916 resulted in more than two million casualties. There were around 857,000 casualties during the Battle of Passchendaele from July 31 to November 10, 1917. How many countries fought in WW1? Around 32 countries fought across a number of different theatres of war. The Allies, otherwise known as the Triple Entente, included Britain, France, Italy, Russia and the USA. They fought the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.