Title: Lives lost WW1 WWI WW2 WWII - War Cemetery Adoption - WCA
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Content: § 9.7 million military personnel were killed and another 21.2 million wounded; § The number of civilians killed is estimated at 6.8 million; and
§ In total, the number of people killed in the war is approximately 16.5 million people (which was around 2% of the population of all the nations involved at the time). § From the British perspective, the Great War resulted in 908,371 soldiers killed and 2,281,864 wounded, taken prisoner or lost. In the Battle of the Somme alone, the British suffered 60,000 casualties in one day. This battle became the greatest single loss of life in the history of the British army, in which around 1.2 million Allied soldiers died in total. World War II
The Second World War was the most deadly and destructive war in world history, and lasted from 1939 to 1945. It cost more money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history. The statistics vary greatly, and are still a source of contention, but it is estimated that: § More than 100 million people from more than 30 countries were mobilized;