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'Preserved' WWI British officer found 90 YEARS ON (In Flanders)
The Scotsman ^ | Mon 30 May 2005 | ALLAN HALL

Posted on 05/30/2005 8:17:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 05/30/2005 8:17:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Another Bog Body, like those thousands of years old.


2 posted on 05/30/2005 8:19:43 PM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: nickcarraway

Brins to mind the senseless slaughter of Ypres and most of the European war of 1914-1918.


3 posted on 05/30/2005 8:33:02 PM PDT by massatoosits (just ask the Brits...)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Ping


4 posted on 05/30/2005 8:34:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: BenLurkin
Bog People
5 posted on 05/30/2005 8:39:43 PM PDT by blam
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To: BenLurkin
Thanks BenL. I'm not going to ping the list, just add it to the catalog, under "Thoroughly Modern Miscellany". The loss of life in WWI was atrocious. One would have thought that the Allied command would have learned its lesson from Flanders and not made the same stupid blunder in the Battle of the Somme, in which almost a quarter of all WWI casualties took place.
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6 posted on 05/30/2005 8:45:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: AdmSmith

pong


7 posted on 05/30/2005 8:49:21 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Whoops, 1/4 is way too high. The total casualties are shown as 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and an estimated 500,000 German casualties. However, the British and French systematically underreported Allied casualties and issued inflated estimates of German casualties.
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8 posted on 05/30/2005 8:55:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv
remember your history...Flanders is a reference to the Belgian territory upon which the three battles of Ypres were fought. Passandaele I believe was the third of those battles, occurring in late 1917. It remains that it, as were most of the large land engagements, frightful slaughters brought on by generals and politicians trapped in the age of Napoleon and Bismark.
9 posted on 05/30/2005 9:05:42 PM PDT by massatoosits (just ask the Brits...)
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mind-boggling... 1 in 8 KIA, 1 in 3 wounded, millions additional MIA...

World War One 1914-1918

Main Source: A 1930s Military study done by US Army Officer Vincent J. Esposito, Colonel, US Military Academy. All are Official figures.

Country Mobilized Killed Wounded POW/Missing Died as POW or by Disease Total % of Mobilized
Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 2,500,000   9,150,000 76.3%
France 8,410,000 1,357,800 3,588,470 537,000 297,000 6,160,800 73.3%
British Empire 8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 191,652   3,190,235 35.8%
Italy 5,615,000 650,000 947,000 600,000 530,000 2,197,000 39.1%
USA 4,734,991 53,402 (combat)
63,114 (non-combat)
204,002 3,973 / 3,350   364,800 8.4%
Japan 800,000 301 907 3   1,210 0.2%
Romania 750,000 335,706 120,000 80,000 62,000 535,706 71.4%
Serbia 707,343 45,000 133,148 152,958   331,106 46.8%
Belgium 267,000 13,716 44,686 34,659   93,061 34.9%
Greece 230,000 5,000 21,000 1,000 32,000 27,000 11.7%
Portugal 100,000 7,222 13,751 12,318 4,100 33,291 33.3%
Montenegro 50,000 3,000 10,000 7,000   20,000 40.0%
Allied Total 42,188,810 5,152,115 12,831,004 4,121,090 925,100 22,104,209 52.4%
Germany 11,000,000 1,773,300 4,216,058 1,152,800 224,000 7,142,558 64.9%
Austria-Hungary 7,800,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 2,200,000 32,000 7,020,000 90.0%
Turkey 2,850,000 325,789 400,000 250,000 163,000 975,000 34.2%
Bulgaria 1,200,000 87,500 152,390 27,029 184,500 266,919 22.2%
Central Powers Total 22,850,000 3,386,200 8,388,448 3,629,829 603,000 15,404,477 67.4%
All Total 65,038,810 8,538,315 21,219,452 7,750,919   37,508,686 57.7%

10 posted on 05/30/2005 9:12:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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seems like there was a FR topic regarding some recently discovered photos from Alpine warfare in WWI. Oh well, maybe someone here has the link. Meanwhile...

World War One Color Photos
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11 posted on 05/30/2005 9:18:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: massatoosits

roo, the old switche', to me. Thanks.


12 posted on 05/30/2005 9:19:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow,

I need to study up on WW1 some more, those numbers are staggering and humbling

Salute


13 posted on 05/30/2005 9:25:14 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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The WWII numbers for mobilization are of course much larger; US losses were more than double for WWII; the scale of that war was much greater; in the battle of Kursk alone (July 1943), six thousand tanks took part, of which more than half were destroyed. The US alone built tens of thousands of planes and tanks, thousands of ships and landing craft, and much of that was scrapped by 1950. Scrapping it all took a lot of time, because of the sheer quantity.

In each of the World Wars, looks like about 1 in 40 US personnel died.


14 posted on 05/30/2005 9:53:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv
With 11,000 dead at Vimy alone, I think Canada can be counted separately from the "British Empire"

Enlisted 595,000

Served overseas 418,000

Killed in Action 35,666

Died of wounds 12,420

Died of disease 5,405

Wounded 155,799

Presumed dead 4,671

Missing 425

Total Dead 60,383

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15 posted on 05/30/2005 10:01:52 PM PDT by Antioch (Benedict XVI: "I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.")
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To: SunkenCiv

The number that struck me was 67% of the mobilized were either killed, wounded or missing (combined total, both sides)

I am worried that our war on terror will not be as kind to our side until we get as serious about winning as these folks were and to get there what will the ROP have to inflict upon us before we do get serious, and We Demand Unconditional Surrender or Death from them as they demand from us? When will the War really begin?


16 posted on 05/30/2005 10:11:09 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yet today it is popular on the left and the far right to downplay the significance of WW1, its combatants, and America's "dubious" role in it. It's unforgivable that our contemporaries are forgetting the sacrifices so many made to save the west just 110 years ago.


17 posted on 05/30/2005 10:38:35 PM PDT by John Filson
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To: SunkenCiv
In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields

18 posted on 05/31/2005 12:17:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: massatoosits

Saw something on the history channel where Gen. George Marshall grabbed Pershing (the overall commander of the army) by the arm in front of the troops and held on to him until he was done berating him for the lack of material, planning, training, etc. from the higher ups. Instead of a court-marshall, Pershing took Marshall as his right-hand man.


19 posted on 05/31/2005 12:40:33 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: SunkenCiv

Those are some astounding numbers. One can easily seey why, with >70% casualties, Russia was ripe for revolution and France was sent into a seemingly irreversible decline. It's also easy to see wny the Western democracies had such an aversion to war during the twenties and thirties--an aversion that Hitler used to his advantage.


20 posted on 05/31/2005 12:43:32 AM PDT by kms61
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