About How many soldiers survived World War One?

Question

In Europe?
just need an estimate

Answer 1

There were about 9.7 million military deaths ("World War I casualties", Wikipedia). Now we only have to subtract that from the total number of soldiers who served at the European fronts. The Central Powers had 22,850,000 troops, the Allies 42,542,802, according to one estimate ("World War I: Troop Statistics", Digital Survivors). Total 65,392,802. Makes about 55,692,802 survivors. About 37 to 40 of whom are still alive today ("Surviving veterans of World War I", Wikipedia).

Some numbers from Great Britain : "Conscription put into uniform nearly every physically fit man, six million out of ten million eligible in Britain. Of these, about 750,000 lost their lives and 1,700,000 were wounded." Makes about 5,250,000 British survivors.

Answer 2

Surviving Veterans Of World War 1

Answer 3

Such questions cannot be answered- a soldier in the army in August 1914 would have had almost no chance of survival, those arriving late would have had every chance.

Those killed at the Somme in July 1916 were mostly those who joined when the war started.

It was all down to your exposure time, the nature of your job, what theatre of way you were in.

I do remember a statistic about the British Army's annual rifle shooting contest- it compared the winner in 1914 to that of a year or two later- and the standard had gone so far down it wasn't funny, because all the well-trained pre-war soldiers were dead.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

hope the link helps - i know it's regarding death toll but I figure it may be better than nothing...