Well, no. The average American is 2 inches taller than then. But the average Euro is 8 inches taller than then.
We haven’t increased our height as much, probably because we were considerably taller than Euros back then.
In WWI multiple people commented on how the rankers in the British Army looked like a different people from the much taller and healthier officers. Malnutrition, probalbly.
You didn’t even click on the link did you?
Winston Churchill made it a point of argument because the average (mostly lower class) Englishman was of such inferior physicality than the average American.