USAMHI WWI–General RefBranch dv Jun 90, Apr 95

CASUALTIES, WWI

A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources

CONTENTS US Casualties -Gen/Misc.....p.1 -Units.....p.2 -Individuals.....p.2 -Other Special Aspects.....p.2 -Notes on Firsts.....p.3 Foreign Casualties.....p.4

US CASUALTIES - GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS

"Battle Casualties in the World War." Infantry Journal (Jun 1927): pp. 81-83. Per. Table of updated data.

Connecticut. Office of the Adjutant General. Service Records: Connecticut Men and Women in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War, 1917- 1920. Hartford, CT: Office of the Adjutant General, State Armory, [1941?]. 3 v. D570.85C8S47.

Florida. State Arsenal. Florida, U.S. Army Wounded: . 3 vols. St Augustine, FL: State Arsenal, n.d. D609U6F67.

Kansas Casualties in the World War, 1917-1919: Regular Army, National Guard, National Army, Enlisted Reserve Corps. Topeka, KS: State Print Plant, 1921. 162 p. D609U7K2.

Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. NY: Oxford, 2007. 434 p. D625.K73.

U.S. Army. Hist Div. Order of Battle.... Vol. 3, Pt 1. Wash, DC: GPO, 1949. pp. 72-74. RefColl. Tables of data.

_____. Statistics Division. "Summary Statistics of the American Expeditionary Forces." 1919? pp. 20-29. UA10U41.

U.S. War Dept. Weekly Statistical Report No 108, 20 Sep 1919. p. 16. UA24A554S. Chart and table summarizes all AEF data. See earlier eds of same, esp No 71, p. 12; No 106, pp. 14 & 16; also No 178.

_____. Office, Surgeon General. Army Medical Bulletin No. 55. Special issue, Jan 1941. 140 p. Per. Casualties listed by unit and operation. See also Medical Bulletin No 24. Per. WWI - Casualties p.2

Virginia. AGO. Virginians Who Lost Their Lives in the World War. Richmond, VA: n.p., 1921. 52 p. D570.85V8A5.

UNITS

U.S. Army. AEF. SOS. Some Accomplishment of the Services of Supply, A.E.F. Report, 1919. p. 35. D570.75A5. Chart shows all divisions’ deaths, wounded & POWs.

U.S. Army. G-3. "Divisional History Charts." Compilation of monthly data charts on each div. #05-1918. Monthly casualty info included.

U.S. War Dept. Gen Staff. Statistics Branch. Records of Combat Division Compared. Special Report #135, 30 Jun 1919. pp. 11 & 25. UA24A554S. Combat deaths & pows.

INDIVIDUALS

New York Times, 1917-18. MF. Includes daily casualty lists.

U.S. Amer Battle Monuments Comm. Combined Directory of Lists of Missing and Burials in American Military Cemeteries in Europe. Paris, 10 Feb 1938. Photocopy of original, 419 p. (bound in 2 vols). D639D4C65. Alphabetically arranged.

U.S. Army. AEF. List of Members of the American Expeditionary Forces of Missing Status. GHQ, 16 Feb 1919. 167 p. D609U6U52. Alphabetical listing of MIA's with unit and approximate time given for each individual. The list contains about 6500 names. 2 addenda appear inside back cover.

OTHER SPECIAL ASPECTS

Haulsee, W.M., et al. Soldiers of the Great War. 3 vols. Wash, DC: Soldiers Record, 1920. D609.U656. Deaths listed by state. WWI - Casualties p.3

Huelfer, Evan A. The “Casualty Issue” in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 244 p. UA23.16H84.

Powell, Ernest F. "The Last Man Killed in World War I." American History Illustrated (Jun 1969): p. 50. Per. Names Henry Gunther, Co A, 313th Infantry, 79th Division, at 1101, 11 Nov 1918.

U.S. Army. Surgeon General's Office. The Medical Department of the in the World War. Vol. XV: Statistics. 2 pts. Wash, DC. GPO, 1925. UH224.1917-18.A25. See also Vol. XI, Chap III.

U.S. Committee on Public Inf. Official U.S. Bulletin, 1917-19. Per. Saturday issues list deaths in USA training camps.

NOTE: FIRST U.S. CASUALTIES, WWI js 78

The first U.S. casualty in World War I was First Lieutenant Louis J. Genelba of the Medical Corps. He was wounded 14 Jul 1917, while serving with British forces southwest of Arras. The first casualties sustained by a U.S. unit at the front occurred 5 Sep 1917 and wounded Sgt Matthew R. Calderwood and Pvt William F. Branigan, members of Co F, 11th Engr, attached to the British at Gouzeaucourt. See:

U.S. Amer Battle Monuments Comm. American Armies and Battlefield in Europe. Wash, DC: GPO, 1938. pp. 394 & 502-03. D528U5.

NOTE: FIRST AEF COMBAT DEATHS dv 78, js 82

Occurred during a German trench raid, 2-3 Nov 1917, against a portion of the line manned by 16th Inf Rgt, 1st Div. See:

Baumgartner, John W. The 16th Infantry Regiment, 1798-1946. Bamberg, Ger: Sebaldus, 1946. pp. 4-5. #603-16.1946.

Hoehling, Adolph A. The Fierce Lambs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. 210 p. D570H48. Detailed popular history.

Marshall, George C. Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-18. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. pp. 48-50. D570.9M37. WWI - Casualties p.4

Naisawald, L. VanLoan. "Fame is a Fleeting Thing." Infantry (Nov/Dec 1982): pp. 24-28. Per.

Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall: Education of a General. NY: Viking, 1963. pp. 155-56. E745M37P6v1.

Society of the First Division. History of the First Division During the World War. Phila: Winston, 1931. pp. 30-32. #05-1.1922.

U.S. Amer Battle Monuments Comm. 1st Infantry Division: Summary of Operations in the World War. Wash, DC: GPO, 1944. pp. 5-7. #05-1.1944.

U.S. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. "German Raid of Night of November 2-3, 1917." Report of board of officers, Hq. AEF, 14 November 1917. Mimeo, n.d. 7 p. D530u52.

U.S. Army. 1st Div. World War Records, First Division, A.E.F., Regular. 31 vols. Wash, DC: Hist Sec, AWC, 1928-30. #05-1.1928. Vol 12: Operations Reports. Includes a 44 p. sec of reports by US units begins with 3 Nov 1917 report by Major G.C. Marshall, 1st Div Gen Staff; see also Vol XIII for 16th Inf; and in 2d series, Vol 1: German Documents (05-1-1930v1) for ca 70 p. of reports, war diaries, and annexes of the 1st Bavarian Landwehr Div.

U.S. Army. 16th Inf. Rgt. The Story of the Sixteenth Infantry in . Frankfurt, Ger: Flock, 1919. pp. 12-16. #603-16.1919.

FOREIGN CASUALTIES

Terraine, John. "British Military Leadership in the First World War." Home Fires and Foreign Fields. [Ed by Peter H. Liddle] London: Brassey's, 1985. pp. 39-51. D546H66. Reassessment of British generals-vis-a vis his perspective of the war's casualties.

Whalen, Robert W. "Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War, 1914-39." PhD dss, Cornell, 1982. 446 p. D639E47W53.

See also: - Annual Reports, War Dept, 1917-19 and esp 1926. - on British: D546A5.1922.