General Pershing WWI casualty list

The General Pershing WWI casualty list was a list of casualties released to the media by the American military during World War I. Newspapers like the Evening Public Ledger would title the list's summary, General Pershing Reports or Pershing Reports.[1] The name General Pershing refers to General John Pershing, who was in command of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), the expeditionary force of the United States during World War I. While fighting the Germans on the Western Front the AEF would take daily casualties in the form of those killed in action (KIA), those who died from their wounds, those who died from disease, accidental deaths, soldiers missing in action (MIA) and soldiers wounded in action (WIA). These numbers would be tabulated by the American military and then released to the American news media.[1]

Front page of the Evening Public Ledger, April 3, 1918, with General John Pershing
Rows of headstones line the grounds of Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, United Kingdom
U.S. soldiers run past the remains of two German soldiers toward a bunker

After the war, the real numbers were mined from the military bureaucracy as opposed to the fog of war. During World War I, 4,734,991 served in the American military.[2] There were a total of 116,516 deaths, with 53,402 of those occurring in battle.[2] Another 63,114 died in accidental deaths, but around 45,000 died due to the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu (30,000 died before they even reached France).[3][4] Of those that survived the war, 204,002 were wounded in some way.[2]

The list

One of the publications that printed this data along with the names who were reported dead and wounded was the Evening Public Ledger, a Philadelphia newspaper published from March 25, 1836 to January 1942. On November 5, 1917, the Evening Public Ledger published a story with the headline "Casualty List In First Action Thrills Nation." In the article it listed the first three American deaths in the war: McLean County, Kentucky's Corporal James Bethel Gresham, Private Merle Hay from Glidden, Iowa and Private Thomas Enright of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[5] They had been killed in a skirmish on November 3, 1917. In addition to the three Americans KIA the casualty list printed that five were WIA and twelve soldiers were MIA.[5] Initially, the casualty lists were published with casualty's name and their address. From March 9, 1918, the list was "denatured" or stripped of home addresses.[6] On April 2, 1918, the American military prevented the publication of all casualty lists from the American War Department decreeing that the only source for casualty lists would be the American command headquarters in France.[7]

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See also

Bibliography

Notes

  1. Evening Public Ledger 1918, p. 6
  2. DeBruyne 2017, p. 2
  3. Wevera & van Bergenc 2014
  4. Byerly 2010
  5. Evening Public Ledger 1917, p. 1
  6. Evening Public Ledger (A) 1918, p. 4
  7. Evening Public Ledger (B) 1918, p. 1
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