BRITISH FIGHTING FORCES

British Army personnel August 1914 Ð 733,514
Total enlistments 1914-1918 Ð 7,712,772, namely:

England   3,987,804
Wales   272,924
Scotland   557,618
Ireland   133,902
Jersey   5,478
Guernsey / Alderney / Sark   4,915
Isle of Man   8,261
Canada   619,636
Australia   416,809
New Zealand   124,211
South Africa   136,074
Newfoundland   9,826
India   1,338,620
Rhodesia   5,200
East Africa   26,300
Nyasaland   10,800
Nigeria   15,567
Gold Coast   10,287
Sierra Leone   694
Gambia   371
Malta   3,000
Cyprus   3,000
Ceylon   2,182
Malay States   2,303
Bermuda   360
West Indies / British Guiana / British Honduras   15,950
Fiji   680


Royal Navy personnel August 1914 Ð 147,667
Total enlistments 1914-1918 Ð 407,316

Royal Air Force personnel August 1914 Ð 1,900
Total enlistments 1914-18 Ð 293,522

Grand total of men  from the British Empire who served in the Army, Navy and Air Force from August 1914 to November 1918:   9,296,691.
Deaths: 1,104,890.


The British Expeditionary ForcesÕ battle losses on the Western Front were 2,690,054. Of those 677,515 died or were posted missing and 1,837,613 were wounded.
In 1918 alone British and Dominion forces suffered 876,250 casualties, including 126,560 dead, 578,402 wounded and 63,641 missing and 107,647 prisoners of war on the Western Front.

 
WAR INJURIES

Some 1,337,427 soldiers from the Navy, Army Air Force and Marines were sent home and pensioned for disability from 1914-1929:

Injury types (with percentage of gross total)

Loss of eyesight:   31,555  (2.4%)
Leg injuries (needing amputation):   24,346  (1.8%)
Other leg injuries:   171,246  (12.8%)
Arm injuries (needing amputation):   10,943  (0.8%)
Other arm injuries:   98,895  (7.4%)
Head injuries:   46,101  (3.5%)
Hand injuries:   52,803  (4.0%)
Chest injury / ailments, including bronchitis and TB:   118,757  (8.9%)
Insanity:   9,578  (0.7%)
Miscellaneous diseases (Debility, stomach ulcers, nephritis, spinal, gas poisoning):   325,082  (24%)