Posted by Adam Quinan on September 06, 2006 at 22:52:50 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Bob & his history posted by Prue Eckett on September 06, 2006 at 22:21:24:
The point being that the population continued at a steady rise of about 2 million in ten years during the war and in the ten years after it. The total casualties were about 700,000 plus the influenza and some (like my great uncle) may be considered war casualties although they died of the flu.
My grandfather had two siblings, one died in 1918 of flu while recovering from his war injuries and the other died aged about four in 1894. People died of other things than war and epidemics, even back then. The total number of deaths were just not great enough to depopulate areas of a settled country like England, though every community and many families did suffer losses, sometimes very significant.