Stn,—My friend Miss Rose Macaulay, in her review in last
week's Spectator of Lord Elton's Notebook in Wartime, says: "It has been lately pointed out in this paper how small a percentage of our fighting forces in the last war were killed." The British Empire's dead in the Services actually numbered 1,104,890, the loss to the manhood of the United Kingdom being almost three-quarters of that total. Whatever are the inferences to be drawn, I think it useful that this ineluctable fact should from time to time be recalled. For instance, I mentioned it recently to two French officers, who were astounded ; they had been given to understand that our losses were much smaller—in spite of the tablets placed in many French cathedrals in honour of the "One Million Dead of the British Empire."-7I am,
Sir, your obedient servant, FABIAN WARE. Imperial War Graves Commission, Wooburn House, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe, Bucks.
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