What were the injuries in World War 1?

Answer 1

SSince this one of the the first modern wars, injuries varied greatly from eariler wars.

Common injuries include:

-gun wounds (internal-minor injuries)

-burns (from flame throwers and explosions)

-stab wounds (from bayonets and swords)

-gas (internal effects)

Answer 2

The biggest and worst injury producer in World War 1 was shrapnel (metal fragments) from shelling. This was followed by bullets, grenades and then bayonets & other hand to hand injuries, in that order. In the early battles of the Western Front, battle casualties were due primarily to artillery-fire (60%), followed by that from firearms (35%) and smaller arms such as hand-grenades, bayonets etc. - (5%).

Nine months into the War there began what was to become an avalanche of toxic gas poisoning cases; firstly with chlorine, later mustard gas. A total of 185,000 cases were recorded with 7,000 fatalities. Almost all the cases were on the Western Front. Overall, gas cases represented about 10% of British casualties although, of course, the fatality rate was much lower than this (0.4%). Whilst many minor toxic gas cases were returned to duty, most of the really seriously affected were permanently debilitated and many suffered an early death some years after the War had ended.

The shells of World War 1 tended to burst in huge discrete chunks, which did appalling damage to the human body when they struck one, such as tearing off of limbs. There were several types of shells, and shapnel shells caused the most wounds. Shapnel shells that were designed to burst in the air and deliver many round balls in all directions with the purpose of wounding men. They were not effective at blowing holes in things and men inside a dugout were effectively protected from shapnel shells.

High explosive shells were very effective at destroying dugouts and other earthworks and these created massive concussion waves that could kill a man up to 30m (30 yards) away. Often, the men killed by concussion had no visible sign of injury and troops were often shocked to find groups of men killed seemingly without cause. After shapnel wounds, the biggest killer was undoubtably the machinegun which was called at the time, 'the most murderous weapon ever invented.' Exact numbers of men killed by machinegun are not known because the machine gun fires what is basically a rifle bullet, except it fires large numbers of them rapidly. Since 35% of wounds came from small arms, I would guess that 20-25% of these were from machinegun and the remainder from rifle fire.

Grenades caused a significant number of wounds (about 3%) as they were frequently thrown into dugouts where they could explode amongst a crowd of men in a confined space.

Finally, wounds were also caused by bayonet and other hand to hand combat which included knives, brass knuckles, maces, clubs, rifle butts, fists, boots, and shovels.

Answer 3

Shell shock, bullet wounds, shrapnel, infection, obliteration, drowning, and bayonet wounds.

Answer 4

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