Casualties
During the first world war, the casualties were tremendously high. There was over 37 million casualties between civilians and soldiers. Casualties including being wounded or killed. In total 17 million men lost their lives in WW1. Another 20 million were injured fighting in action. This included about 10 million military death and 7 million civilian death. During this time lots of famine and disease were being spread, resulting in 2 million deaths from both civilians and military. Most of these credited to the Spanish flu. This war was ranked sixth deadliest conflict in history. 60 million lives were lost worldwide during WW1 credited to either disease, famine, or warfare.
Canada suffered a great loss throughout the war. around one million men were deployed during those years, resulting around 66 000 deaths. That is just shy of 1% of Canada's 8 million person population dying through battle. Around 14% of the total Canadian population was deployed.
This war was the first big war that Canada participated in. At the time they were under power of the British empire and their colonies. The warfare casualties went up substantially as Europe had never seen warfare like this before.
Canada suffered a great loss throughout the war. around one million men were deployed during those years, resulting around 66 000 deaths. That is just shy of 1% of Canada's 8 million person population dying through battle. Around 14% of the total Canadian population was deployed.
This war was the first big war that Canada participated in. At the time they were under power of the British empire and their colonies. The warfare casualties went up substantially as Europe had never seen warfare like this before.
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