Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — 49,498 Yanks Died In Battle [ARTICLE]

49,498 Yanks Died In Battle

Final Casualty Reports From Records Office.

Final casualty reports from the central records office of the American expeditionary forces iu France, made public by the war department. gave the total battle deaths as 49,498, total wounded 205,690 and prisoners 4.480. — “Only slight revisions’’ will be made tn this report, it was announced. Recent corrections in the list of missing have reduced the number to only 127 names, as compared with 264,000 for France and 121,000 for England. To July 1, the array had reported 149,433 cases of disabled soldiers to the war risk insurance bureau. It was estimated that the dual total would be close to 200,000.