Teribus,

Again I reiterate your greater knowledge, however ..........

German losses were 134,000 at the first Battle of Ypres, total Allies losses were 154,000.

I must point out these are your figures Terribus.

I think perchance you have tried to massage Allied losses by breaking them down into individual nations. to have this amount of losses by anyone's standards is some Victory.

As for the specific information you included I am minded of the old adage "If you can't blind them with science, baffle them with bullshit"

You stated that in 1916 ALL the forces were Volunteers, that is clearly NOT the case. Of all troops enlisting in the first five months of 1916 just over 46,000 were Volunteers. Another 396,000 were conscripts. (I choose five months to allow for some training before 1st July, so I will accept I may be wrong)

The figures quoted are from UK Parlimentary Papers 1921 (Cmd 1193)General Annual Reports on the British Army (including the Territorial Force) for the period 1st October 1913 to 30th September 1919.

You didn't address my second point with how anyone can consider a casualty rate in excess of eighty three percent (83%) acceptable. I wonder if any General in history would have found such a loss acceptable. Five sixths of a force killed, wounded or missing is astonishing.

PS I too could copy and paste from Wikipaedia if I wanted :-)