sunflower Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 I have been online to the Black Watch Regiment's website and it states that the Black Watch Regiment suffered 8000 fatalities in WW1. I have been trying to find out the number of casualities sustained by the Black Watch in WW1 but can only find the number of deaths. Also I would like to know what was the percentage of those killed as I am unfamiliar with the actual numbers serving in the Black Watch during the Great War. If anyone can help, would really appreciate it. Also I know this is not the forum for it but I would like the total of fatalities/casualties for WW2. If anyone can give me the link for the WW2 forum I will see if anyone there can help. thanks, Sunflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9th Black Watch Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Hi Sunflower, I've had a quick look at SDGW and come up with the following. Total casualties - 7932 KIA - 5765 DOW - 1629 Died - 538 Hope this helps, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9th Black Watch Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Sunflower, I should have added that in his preface to 'A History of the Black Watch in the Great War', A. G. Wauchope indicates that 'some thirty thousand men served in the Regiment in France, Belgium and Salonica, in Palestine and Mesopotamia, of whom eight thousand were killed and over twenty thousand were wounded'. All the best, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunflower Posted 8 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Thanks Derek This is great, really appreciated Many thanks, sunflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Gordon Posted 11 November , 2004 Share Posted 11 November , 2004 Sunflower From Table K of Brig.-General E.A.James "Brittsh Regiments 1914-1918" an estimated 8390 Black watch lost their lives. (The title I have quoted may be a bit dodgy. I quote from memory which is definitely dodgy) Regards Jim Gordon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunflower Posted 12 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 12 November , 2004 Hi Jim Thanks for that. Been a great help. sunflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9th Black Watch Posted 13 November , 2004 Share Posted 13 November , 2004 Hi Sunflower and Jim, I'm not surprised there are discrepancies concerning the total number of Black Watch casulaties. It would be interesting to see the total recorded by the CWGC. In my collection I have an MM group to L.-Cpl. William McLean Dick, 9th R.Highrs. who is recorded in SDGW as having died of wounds, France and Flanders, 2 November 1918. He actually died of neuritis as a German POW and is buried in Niederzweheren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. Likewise I have a DCM to L.-Cpl. James Sandilands, 9th R.Highrs.who died on 31 March 1919. He does not appear in SDGW and at the moment I can't say how he died. However he is listed by the CWGC so I presume his death was war related. From what I've read on this site neither case is particularly unusual. To some extent I suppose these and similar examples explain why different sources give different figures. Nevertheless I don't think this would explain the c.400 additional casualties listed by Brig.-General James. I'll have a dig around and see if I can come up with some further statistics. All the best, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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