СРПСКИ ВОЈНИ ГУБИЦИ 1914. Прилог истраживању
SERBIAN WAR LOSSES IN 1914. A contribution to a research

Summary/Abstract: During the first three years of the Great War, the Kingdom of Serbia was forced to mobilize all three age categories of people’s army and last defence and initiate recruitment and training of military capable male population from the new-liberated regions. Since the extreme dynamics of military actions at the Serbian front demanded engagement of a larger number of officers, enlisted officers and soldiers, Serbia was forced to mobilize more than a half a million enlistees of different categories. Some were engaged in lines of the operative army, some at the back of the front and in the various matters of importance for the defence of the state. War actions intensity and three great battles in succession that demanded engagement of almost all the forces of the Serbian operative army, caused significant losses in people and military equipment on the Serbian side. Since it is not possible, according to available souces, to ascertain the exact number of the tragically dead, diseased, wounded, ill and captive officers, enlisted officers and Serbian soldiers during the first months of the Great War, here are presented the losses of people within the Serbian army up to the end of war operations in 1914, on the basis of the review made by Adjutant section of the Supreme Command Headquarters. According to these data, total loss of people in the Serbian army until the beginning of a standstill at the Serbian front was 22,275 dead (483 officers, 1,344 enlisted officers and 20,448 soldiers), 95,720 wounded (1,340 officers, 5,365 enlisted officers and 89,015 soldiers), 421 contused (26 officers, 44 enlisted officers and 351 soldier) and 45,257 missing (261 officer, 1,322 enlisted officers and 43,674 soldiers). Within these data, it is not possible to determine how many people succumbed to wounds, how many remined permanent invalids and how many returned to the battlefield. Within the group of the military persons regarded missing, it is not possible to determine expressly how many people were captives or deserters, how many died without a proof of their death, and how many returned to war machinery after a short absence or a temporary drag behind the basic unit.

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