Facts about World War 1
World War 1 or the First World War, 1914 - 1918, was the first war that involved nations spanning more than half the globe.
The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. He was the heir to the Austrian throne and was murdered by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This was the spark that caused war to be declared.
The World War 1 was commonly called “The Great War” or sometimes “the war to end wars” until World War II started .
More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in World War 1.
First known use of chemical weapons (mustard Gas) was in World War 1.
There were 70,000,000 men and women in uniform of that number one-half were either killed, wounded or became prisoners of war.
More than 9 million d*ed on the battlefield, and nearly that many more on the home fronts because of food shortages, g*nocide, and ground combat.
Also 230 soldiers died every hour for 4 and a quarter years
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During the First World War, the British and Canadian armies recruited more than 50,000 “Bantam-sized” men who volunteered to serve as front-line infantry soldiers. Men below the army’s 5ft. 3ins. minimum regulation height, not much taller than they rifles they would fight with, flocked to join up. They came from all over Britain, particularly from coal-mining regions of England, Wales, and Scotland, then later from Canada.
Eventually, there were over 20 Bantam battalions in Britain, plus two battalions from Canada. Bantams served gallantly in trenches along the Western Front, where almost half of them became casualties. They were soon forgotten from history until their story was researched and written by Canadian military historian Sidney Allinson.
For more details, see: http://www.bantamsoldiers.com