>>19108111 lb/pb Dropped French Rifles and the costs of killing our brothers.
Generations of men like you and I were turned to cannon fodder by our current and common foe, Anon.
"Why are wars so important?
Who benefits?"
Q50
Lost generations: The demographic impact of the Great War
François Héran
In Population & Societies Volume 510, Issue 4, 2014, pages 1 to 4
… the death toll among French troops between August 1914 and November 1918 was 1,357,800. His reports submitted between June 1919 and March 1920 reproduce, with some caveats, the figures for total losses acknowledged by the French army. In 1931, Michel Huber, director of the French statistical office (Statistique générale de la France, now replaced by INSEE), made some minor adjustments, adding the 11,400 naval deaths and the 28,600 deaths recorded by the army medical corps in the six months after the war to reach a total of 1.4 million.
The number of wounded is difficult to estimate because of the many double counts. According to Marin’s report, the French army evacuated 4.2 million men, not counting the 5.2 million who fell ill, among whom the military hospitals recorded 251,000 and 147,000 deaths, respectively. An unknown number died after being demobilized, since the army statistics covered currently serving soldiers only. Based on an analysis of war veterans’ cards, Prost lowered the total number of wounded to 3.4 million
https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPSOC_510_0001–lost-generations-the-demographic.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douaumont_Ossuary