What are the top 5 bloodiest battles in terms of British casualties?
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You might want to consider following battles as bloodiest for British armies. Please note I am not considering a day-by-day casualties count, but the total casualties for a battle.
- The Somme battle: classic, you cite that one already. A long and bloody battle, with I think some top day by day casualties count
- Battle of Ypres (WW1 as well)
- German Michael offensive on British forces
- Battle of Lys, a few days after the Michael offensive
- Battle of Normandy: long and blooy battle, because the British forces, as well as Commonwealth forces, handled so much offensives against German forces
- Market Garden operation (Arnhem battle) : heavy losses on airborne and armoured forces
Some good candidates:
- I suspect the Pedestal operation has suffered very high casualties, considering the high number of sunk ships and the inhability to control the battlefield after the fight
- Battle of Gandamak, 1st war of Afghanistan: a good candidate for the Asiatic zone, with 15 000 casualties including about 4 500 soldiers.
- 1917 year of air battles: a very hard year for the Royal Air Force, with numerous losses. A lot of deaths for air forces, but not as a number
- Raid on Nuremberg: A lot of deaths for air forces, but not as a number
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List of battles by casualties
I have made a list using this wikipedia article named List of battles by casualties and have simply removed the ones involving Brits and put them in to order from one to five, and added one extra.
One to five
- Battle of the Somme. 1 July 1916 – 18 November 1916. 420,000 British casualties
- Spring offensive. 21 March – 18 July 1918. 418,374 British casualties.
- Battle of Passchendaele. 31 July – 10 November 1917. Approx 300,000 British casualties
- Battle of Watling street. 61 AD. 80,000 British casualties.
- Burma campaign. 14 December 1941 – 13 September 1945. 28,878 British killed and missing.
- Battle of Towton. 29 March 1461. 28,000 disputed casualties
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