+-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+ | | | | 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 | 10.83| 23.75 | 9.60 | | | | | | | | | Number of missing | 807 | -- | 4,009| -- | 132 | | Percentage | 2.19 | -- | 0.45| -- | .83 | +-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+ | Total killed, | | | | | | | wounded, and missing | 8,458 | 14,849 | 117,768| 104,050 | 1,959 | | Percentage | 23.31 | 15.17 | 13.26| 34.68 | 12.43 | +-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+ The proportion of men killed to those wounded was as follows: killed 315, wounded 1,512, or 1 to 4.8. If we add to the men killed on the field of battle the 49 dying in the next 48 hours, the proportion of fatalities is increased to 1 to 4.15. The higher of these proportions is certainly the surgically correct one. With regard to the general accuracy of the numbers given above, a comparison of those published for the campaign up to September 15, 1900, is of value, as the two series substantially tally. Thus, up to that date, 17,072 men were hit, and of these 2,998 were killed. The proportion killed to wounded was therefore 1 to 4.69. If it be borne in mind that of the wounded men included in Table I., 1.5 per cent. died later in the Base hospitals, the percentages are almost identical. Table III. is inserted with a view to instituting a comparison between the number of casualties in the present and earlier campaigns. For the purposes of this table it is necessary to take the approximate number of men at Lord Methuen's disposal, irrespective of their active participation in the fighting.