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Evening Star, Issue 17880, 28 January 1922, Page 15

Ail cx-scrgeant Las made some calculations to impress on the minds ol his friends the immensity of the loss of life in' the x Great War. The official list of British dead, taking the Empire, was nearly a million. Marching in fours,_ at intervals of a yard, these dead soldiers would form a column over 120 miles long, or from Paddington to beyond Bristol. Marching past in fours at the rate ot tour miles an hour they would take over thirty •hours to pass a given point. If 100 of (heir bodies had been placed in a railway truck, and forty trucks made into a train load, it would have required 230 trains to carry them away. This is the cost of war to one of the .fighting nations, and eighteen nations were deep m it.