15 October 2006
CabinLass – at 12:20
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/military/WW1/1918-casualties-Nov-14.html
Has anyone seen this? If you click on the link and then arrow all the way down you will be shocked at the number of military that died according to the military records dated Novembe 14th. There are two similar reports from September but the deaths from illness were only a handfull. I can find no record for the month of October. Just thought it interesting.
crfullmoon – at 12:27
I recall reading they would also tell families their soldiers died in battle, when they really died of pandemic here, there , or on the troopships in the Atlantic…thinking death in battle wouldn’t sound as bad as disease (or the enemy wouldn’t know how sick they were). The doctors had wanted the troop shipments stopped and the president wouldn’t do it, so, more died of illness than had to.
LauraB – at 12:28
Disease has always played a huge role in war-time fatalities - the Civil War is another great example. However, seeing all those “disease” listings makes me shudder.
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