That’s not the butchers bill, that’s just the deserters.
“That’s not the butchers bill, that’s just the deserters.”
I doubt it. AWOL or absent without leave is the term use for desserts. MIA means missing in action – likely dead but the body has not been recovered.
This is industrial trench warfare where people get blown to nothing or buried under the walls of collapsing trenches. The Suropeans are still digging the bodies of missing WW1 soldiers out of Flanders Fields in Europe.