So many. I can't even imagine the national grief. For some families, it was better not to talk about it - everyone had someone they knew who'd died out there so what would be the use in individual sorrow? I found a few ancestors when I did the fam tree, both on memorials in Somerset. Lest we forget, not just them, but the men who die in all fucked up wars.
It’s hard to believe no family was impacted by any war. All of which happen for the same reasons. Powerful fucked up men.