Casualties During The War
- Killed and mortally wounded: 9 officers, 90 enlisted men
- Wounded: 1 officer, 94 enlisted men
- Died of disease: 24 officers, 373 enlisted men
- Captured or missing: 5 officers, 152 men
- Total casualties: 39 officers, 709 enlisted men
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Famous quotes containing the word war:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.