as given in Table I. are massed, we get an approximate total of
12,420.[3]

Of this number, 1,959 or 15.06 per cent. were reported as killed,
wounded, or missing. Thus: killed, 315 or 2.53 per cent.; wounded, 1,512
or 12.17 per cent.; missing, 132 or 1.06 per cent. Reference to Table
III. shows that these percentages almost exactly correspond with those
obtaining in the entire Crimean campaign, and are greater than those
observed in the German army during the entire Franco-German campaign.

The mortality statistics given in Table II. are of great interest,
since to those dying on the field are added all men dying within the
first 48 hours in the Field hospitals. From the surgical point of view
these men all received mortal injury, and are therefore properly
included among the fatalities. Their inclusion, moreover, makes an
appreciable difference in the percentage proportion of mortal injuries
to wounds. Thus, if the numbers are massed (omitting the 'missing'), we
find that in the four battles 1,827 men were hit, of whom 315, or 17.24
per cent., were killed. Among the wounded carried off the field,
however, 49 received mortal injuries, and if these are added to the 315,
we find that the proportion of mortal injuries reaches 19.92 per cent.

TABLE III[4]

+-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+
| | | | 1871. | 1877. | 1899. |
| | 1815. | 1854. | Franco-| Russo- | Kimberley|
| | Waterloo| Crimean | German | Turkish | Relief |
| | (English| War | War | War | Force |
| | troops) | (English| (German| (Russian| (English |
| | | troops) | troops)| troops) | troops) |
+-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+
| Number of troops | | | | | |
| engaged | 36,240 | 97,864 | 887,876| 300,000 | 15,748 |
| | | | | | |
| Number of killed | 1,759 | 2,775 | 17,570| 32,780 | 315 |
| Percentage | 4.85 | 2.81 | 1.97| 10.92 | 2 |
| | | | | | |
| Number of wounded | 5,892 | 12,094 | 96,189| 71,268 | 1,512 |
| Percentage | 16.25 | 12.35