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Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million.
United Kingdom casualties of war lists deaths of British armed forces and British citizens caused by conflicts in which the United Kingdom was involved.
World War II, the deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States alone was more than $341 billion (approximately $5.8 trillion in 2023 dollars when adjusted for inflation ).
Aug 9, 2024 · Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people. The Soviet Union suffered the highest number of fatalities of...
- Army Roll of Honour, 1939–1945
- British Army Casualty Lists, 1939–1945
- Royal Navy Registers of Reports of Deaths on Ships
- Royal Navy Registers of Killed and Wounded
- Shipping and Seamen Rolls of Honour, 1914–1918 and 1939–1945
- Indexes to Deaths in The Armed Forces, 1796–2005
- French and Belgian Death Certificates For British Military Personnel, 1914–1919
- Maritime War Deaths, 1794–1964
- Royal Navy First World War Lives at Sea Database
- Civilian War Dead, 1939–1945
Search the Army Roll of Honour for details of British Army casualties in the Second World War (WO 304) on findmypast (charges apply).
Search the daily British Army casualty lists (WO 417) on Findmypast.co.uk (charges apply). These cover British Army officers, other ranks and nurses. They state the individuals’ rank, service number, date of becoming a casualty, type of casualty and sometimes the unit/battalion number within which the individual served. The term ‘casualty’ covers a...
Download, for free, digital microfilm copies of indexes to registers of reports of deaths on Royal Navy ships in ADM 104/102–108 and the respective registers themselves in ADM 104/109–118 and ADM 104/122–139. The registers include name, age and rank of each seaman, the ship on which they were serving at the time of their death, with the date, place...
Download, for free, digital microfilm copies of the Royal Navy registers of killed and wounded 1854–1911 and 1914–1929 in ADM 104/144–149. Indexes to these records for 1915–1929 are in ADM 104/140–143. The registers include name, age and rank of seamen, the ship on which they were serving and the date, place and circumstances of their injury or dea...
Search the Shipping and Seamen Rolls of Honour for details of people who died or were declared ‘missing presumed dead’ in the service of the merchant marine fleets during the First and Second World Wars (BT 339) on Ancestry.co.uk (charges apply).
Search indexes to registers of deaths in the armed forces on findmypast (charges apply). The death certificates themselves can be obtained from the General Register Office.
Search for French and Belgian death certificates for British and Commonwealth soldiers and airmen who died outside the immediate war zone (RG 35/45-69) on BMD Registers (charges apply). They are written in French or Flemish and not all records have survived.
Search selected maritime war deaths (charges apply) on findmypast.co.uk by name. The online collection includes records series BT 334 which cover First and Second World war and ADM 242, ADM 184/43–54 and CUST 67/74 which cover the First World War period.
Search the Royal Navy First World War Lives at Seadatabase by name, service number and numerous other criteria. The database is continually being updated, and by the expected completion date of November 2018, it will contain information relating to all the Royal Navy officers and ratings that served in the First World War. The database is being com...
Search or browse the list of 66,375 civilians killed in the Second World War on Ancestry (charges apply), Commonwealth War Graves Commission or Genuki(for Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire). The list was taken from the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour and includes deaths on board ship and deaths abroad, including civilian deaths in prison camps....
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
Mar 6, 2015 · Citation: C N Trueman "Military casualties of World War Two". historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 6 Mar 2015. 2 Oct 2024. Allied forces: Great Britain + Commonwealth. 452,000.
