Editor's Note: Over 80 years after the end of the First World War, we still do not have 100% accurate statistics on battle losses.  Part of the problem is due to the fact that all information at the time was captured by pen and paper.  It was an exceedingly difficult (if not impossible) task for the Central Records Office and the unit personnel officers to keep track of all of the members of the A.E.F. in Europe.  Many times transfer paperwork did not arrive until after a soldier had been killed in action or had died of disease, resulting in him being listed as "killed in action" from a depot division which never saw combat.  In many other cases, soldiers were evacuated form the battlefield and died later in a hospital from their wounds.  Frequently, this information never made it back to their original unit, or if it did, the soldier had already been dropped from the rolls.  Therefore, divisional battle losses are at best an estimate of the number of men killed in action or died of wounds, and should be treated as such.  In this light, I have included casualty figures from two different (and conflicting) official sources.

Ayres, Leonard P.  The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary.  Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.  1920.  The cover title of this work is "The Official Record of the United States' Part in the Great War."  It was prepared by the Adjutant General's Office under the guidance of Colonel Leonard P/ Ayres, Chief of the Statistics Branch of the General Staff.  It is an interesting and useful book, with many charts, tables and maps.

American Battle Monuments Commission. American Armies and Battlefields in Europe.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1938.  Written by the American Battle Monuments Commission with the benefit of hindsight and research time, this is an excellent reference work on the A.E.F.  Although its primary focus is on the battles and battlefields, there are numerous outstanding tables and maps, many of the maps being full-color fold-outs.

Battle Losses and Replacements

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