Though World War I has been over for seven years, I believe this article contains important details about global consequences of World War I. As we are still struggling from the aftermath, I’d like to bring up a crucial consequence of World War I. World War I and the influenza pandemic took around 56 million lives, or three percent of the entire population in 1910 (Dunn and Mitchell, 731). These deaths should not be forgotten, they are a lost generation, the generation where almost all of us know someone who had died to the war. These deaths are a major consequence of World War I. During this article you may read things that you never knew about what happened behind these closed curtains of the Great War. I will provide an “inside” perspective
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Almost 30,000 brave men served on the Western front in the beginning of the war. “Casualties were so heavy enough in that theater that the British ran out of officers who could speak Urdu and the like, thus command these units effectively.” (Indian Letters from World War I). By the end of the war, over 1 million Commonwealth forces died, including 50,000 Sepoys. One man wrote a letter saying “I’ve been wounded in the head, but hope to get better soon…lucky [to be] alive while all my brethren have been killed…here the earth is covered with dead men and there is no place to put up one’s foot” (Indian Letters from World War I). There were so many tragic deaths of men who were blinded with gas, killed by a cannon, machine gun fire, and many more saddening ways to die in war. Wilfred Emmott Addison was a Lieutenant serving in an Australian country. Wilfred Addison was described as one: “who, with dying and wounded around him, and machine gun bullets tearing up the ground where he stood, steadies and waved forward the remnant of his platoon until he himself fell pierced with several bullets… “(Letters and Diaries). He died honorably in battle at Sulva Bay. These men suffered a hard war, where they didn’t know
Almost 30,000 brave men served on the Western front in the beginning of the war. “Casualties were so heavy enough in that theater that the British ran out of officers who could speak Urdu and the like, thus command these units effectively.” (Indian Letters from World War I). By the end of the war, over 1 million Commonwealth forces died, including 50,000 Sepoys. One man wrote a letter saying “I’ve been wounded in the head, but hope to get better soon…lucky [to be] alive while all my brethren have been killed…here the earth is covered with dead men and there is no place to put up one’s foot” (Indian Letters from World War I). There were so many tragic deaths of men who were blinded with gas, killed by a cannon, machine gun fire, and many more saddening ways to die in war. Wilfred Emmott Addison was a Lieutenant serving in an Australian country. Wilfred Addison was described as one: “who, with dying and wounded around him, and machine gun bullets tearing up the ground where he stood, steadies and waved forward the remnant of his platoon until he himself fell pierced with several bullets… “(Letters and Diaries). He died honorably in battle at Sulva Bay. These men suffered a hard war, where they didn’t know