First World War casualty Frank Dent (General)

by jhopkins , Sunday, April 06, 2014, 22:36 (3679 days ago) @ HarryBrook

(snip) Then you need other sources of information - Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 gives a range of causes of death - killed in action, died of wounds, or died. The latter usually being of disease or by accident.

I am currently reading a book about New Zealanders and military discipline in the First World War (something of a non sequitur at times!).

I note in the book it states that if a NZ soldier was executed by his own forces, the soldier was recorded as "Died" with no other qualifying phrase.

As our lads came under the same legislation as soldiers from Britain (and, I think, Canada), it seems possible that in Britain the same convention would have been followed.

Fortunately we know that execution was not the cause of death in Frank Dent's case - I have only mentioned this to add to HarryBrook's explanation of what could be meant by "died".