How many WWI dead?

[booger]

I don't have any yet, but my wife has three g.uncles (all brothers) killed in WWI.

 

[GRACELAND]

   yes the one in my line is my greatgrand fathers brother ,
                  EDWARD B BALLARD DIED 10 5 1915
                  REMEMBERED YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL
                        2nd ban Gloucester Regt .....

[GRACELAND]

 
 Found this rather good memorial At Bream in Somerset uk

[Fitty]

As far as i know i have only one. He was'nt even a relative but my grandmothers 1st husband.  His name was George Stringer Ellis and he died on the RMS Leinster when it was sank by torpedo in the irish sea.  I have a memorial page on my site with pictures from Hollybrook cemetery in Southamton.

Here is the Leinsters official page

http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/mvleinster.html

[Matty]

Our Family had just one member that died his name was John Crompton Service no 14710 (this was found with the help of Doug Lewis on Rootschat ~Thankyou). 
 
John Died 5.7.1916 killed in action in France.  His name is on the Thiepval Memorial.
My Brother in law is named after him also one of my Grandsons. 

Matty

[Heather D]

Quite a handful of them in WW2 but just the one in WW1 so far. My great uncle Sidney Driscoll, Lance Corporal with the London Regiment. He died 7 June 1917 age 20 at the launch of the Battle of Messines when 19 underground mines were detonated along German lines and some 10,000 men lost their lives in the explosion alone.

Sidney was actually the start of my family history research. About a year ago my father told me a story about when he attended his sister's wedding in 1938. Dad remembers walking from the church to the reception when suddenly my grandfather Albert grabbed the bride's bouquet, leapt over some railings and laid the flowers at a WW1 memorial, saying "that's for Sidney"

The quest for Sidney snowballed into the obsession I have now  I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person to remember him at this time of year ....

[billgam]

So far I have found four with two possibles waiting in the wings.

Brothers :-
  James Gambling 10/3929, 1st Bn Wellington Regiment N.Z.E.F. 16 Sept 1916
  John Gambling 2267, 5th Australian Pioneers, 10 May 1917.
Brothers :-
  Alfred Astley Gambling 389, 3rd Bn Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 10 June 1915
  Ernest Walter Gambling 12/3020, 1st Bn Auckland Regiment. 03 July 1916

07/11. Now confirmed

  Sarjeant William Henry Gambling Kings Royal Rifle Corps.  16 Oct 1917
  Earnest Gambling Royal Berkshire Regiment. 27 Aug 1918

[D ap D]

To date fortunately none, neither in WWI nor WWII.

I have however found 2 who died in fighting in Waterloo.

[Amy K]

I voted NONE, but it isn't strictly true. My gt gt grandfather was a soldier during WW1 and he was posted to France but he had shell shock and, in order to get him off the front line, he was given a commission and posted to Northumberland. He died in there in 1917, but I believe that his death was related to combat etc, and that it was likely he would have died then even if the war hadn't have been taking place. However, he has a CWGC headstone, so they class him as a war victim.... hmmmmm. Other than that no other WW1 deaths thanks goodness.