1.4 1000000 French Dead On The Champaign Of Honor

1.4 1000000 French soldiers died betwixt 1914 too 1918 inwards the First World War. That is the equivalent of 37 deaths per sixty minutes for 4 too a one-half years. One hundred years later on Armistice twenty-four hours the French paper Le Figaro has released an interactive map which visualizes the huge publish of French decease inwards World War I.

Fallen on the Field of Honor animates through every unmarried twenty-four hours of the nation of war showing every place where French soldiers died on each day. The information for the map comes from the Ministry for the Armed Forces. The map doesn't exhibit the French soldiers whose appointment too place of decease remains unknown.

The map is accompanied yesteryear a bar graph which shows the publish of deaths per calendar week for the shape of the whole war. This graph is annotated alongside the dates of of import nation of war machine offensives too campaigns. Fallen on the Field of Honor equally good has a bar graph which shows the publish of soldiers who died yesteryear age. The average historic menses of the dead was 27.5 years old.