{"id":324,"date":"2015-07-27T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/world-war-1-in-numbers\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:56:03","slug":"world-war-1-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"World War 1 in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

World War One in Numbers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

240 Men took six hours to build a 250 meter trench.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

25,000 miles of trenches dug on the Western Front.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a3100 million lent to Britain by America for the war.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 Billion letters sent between British families and soldiers fighting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

9 million food parcels sent to prisoners of war by the British Red Cross.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

627 Servicemen were awarded the Victoria Cross.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

185,000 British Troops taken Prisoner.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 million men shipped back to Britain due to serious illness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

240,000 British Soldiers had limbs amputated.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

80,000 British soldiers suffered shell shock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

20,000 British soldiers suffered ‘Trench Foot’<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

100,000 soldiers gassed in fighting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6 weeks – life expectancy of a Junior Officer in the trenches<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

60,000 British Casualties on the the first day of the Battle of the Somme – 1st July 1916.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3,600 British soldiers killed per day in the five month Somme offensive<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

400 rounds per minute fired by a German machine gun.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

150 yards – typical width of ‘No-Man’s’ land.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2,000 British war cemetries on the old Western Front.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

53 British villages suffered no war deaths. They were called ‘Thankful Villages’<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

8.9 million British Troops deployed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 million men enlisted in the British Army by January 1915.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

250,000 soldiers lied about their age to enlist in Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 in seven weeks spent by a British soldier on the front line.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 weeks a year leave was given to soldiers in the British Army.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5p basic daily pay for soldiers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

16,000 Conscientious Objectors refused to fight.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11 German Spies were executed by Britsih authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.5 million Armenians were killed by Turkey’s Ottoman Empire in genocide.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3.5 million standard Lee Enfield rifles were built in Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5,000 Allied ships sunk by U-Boats.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

190,000 mines laid in waters around Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 billion artillery shells fired on the Western Front.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 tonne of explosives fired per square meter of Western Front territory.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

812 tonnes of cordite produced per week in Gretna factory, Scotland.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

160 tonnes of munitions found in the fields on the old Ypres front in 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

400 female factory workers died from over exposure to TNT explosives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6,000 Belgium civilians killed in 1914 by the German army.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

200,000 Belgian refugees came to Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

557 people killed by German Zeppelin raids.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3 million acres of farmland created in Britain to prevent famine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span>1,000  Daily average caloric intake German adult civilians Jan 1918.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

103. German airship and bomber raids on Great Britain.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

675 Allied air raids on Germany<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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