Hi Reiver 2,

I wonder how reliable the Wikipedia article that you refer to actually is?

In his book, 'The Gardeners of Salonika: The Macedonian Campaign 1915 - 1918' (Andre Deutsch, 1965) Alan Palmer tells us that, "The most effective enemy of the British in Macedonia was undoubtedly the malaria-bearing mosquito. During the three years of the campaign ten times as many British soldiers entered hospital with malaria as with wounds caused by enemy action; no less than 34,762 British officers and men ... were invalided home as chronic malarial cases ..." (p.142). This suggests that somewhere between 3,000 to 3,500 British soldiers were wounded by enemy action and this figure hardly represents "enormous casualties" by First World War standards.