Chapter XVIII.
CASUALTIES.


During the period of the World War the Marine Corps personnel suffered casualties in actual battle in France with the American Expeditionary Forces (Second Division and Aviation); in Aviation while operating as part of the naval service in France; and in the West Indies in operations against the bandits of Santo Domingo.

MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES.

Marine Corps deaths in the American Expeditionary Forces, as obtained from Marine Corps records on January 14, 1920, are divided as follows:

Character.Officers.Enlisted
men.
Total.
Killed in action451,4201,465
Died of wounds received in action30961991
Died of accident32427
Died of disease14255269
Other causes11112
Total932,6712,764

The following is a summary of the casualties sustained by the Fourth Brigade of Marines from March 15 to November 11, 1918, as published in General Orders, No. 66, Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, dated July 2, 1919:

Fourth Brigade casualties.

(Part 1 of 2) Off. = Officers.