Slightly off topic, but speaking of World War I casualties, I’m reading a book now that has an excuse for the Gallipoli campaign. It’s about Allenby’s campaigns against the Turks, but suggests that Gallipoli was actually intended to take Turkish pressure off the Suez Canal and Mesopotamia. It’s early in the book. “How Jerusalem was Won, W.T. Massey, London, 1919. (Free Ebook). That’s not something I’ve run across in any modern history.
I’m sure that would have been one of the goals of taking Gallipoli, of course the other was having a path to The Black Sea to aid the Russians.
I’ve been binge watching “The Great War” on YT for the past few weeks. I’m up to April 1916.