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Posted By: Matt_R
14-Nov-09 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: Obit:Last of the Last-WWI veteran, dies at age 110
Subject: RE: Last of the Last - WWI veteran, author at age 108

57,000 British soldiers were not killed on the first day on the Somme. That was the total casualties ... the number of killed was 19,240. And Britain going to war was more about Belgium than a "Blood Debt to France and Russia" despite being part of the Entente.