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[mrclark303]

That anticipated casualty rate you spoke of was mostly because so many of the Commonwealth's higher officers had served as lieutenants in the trenches during WWI. They'd seen first hand 'the butchers bill' being paid in full. For instance, the Gordons had 9 battalions (1914 strength of 1007 Officers and ORs) on the Western Front and suffered over 29,000 casualties including 9,000 killed. That means that statistically each of the Officers and ORs of all 9 battalions was replaced more than 3 times.

Hi Paul, the casualty rate of WW1 was unimaginable, I have yet to visit even the tiniest village in the UK that doesn't have a war memorial and lost men in the great war.

Some villages and towns vertually loosing an entire generation of young men.

It's a rate of casualties and loss of life that simply wouldn't be tolerated today.