Did anybody die from barb-wire in WW1?

Answer 1

Barbed wire was rarely the only cause of a casualty. Usually it was that by getting caught in the wire or going out of your way to avoid it you'd leave yourself open to the new methods of warfare that became popular during WWI, namely machine guns, toxic gas, and explosives. Mines and other traps were often placed with the wire as well. There are a few instances where people were seriously injured by barbed wire and as a result bled to death or died from infection, but barbed wire was more a strategy to hinder movement than lower numbers