Western Front (World War I)

Western Front
Part of World War I
British wounded at Bernafay Wood during the Battle of the Somme, 19 July 1916.
Date 4 August 1914 – 11 November 1918 (4 years, 3 months and 1 week) Location Belgium, northeastern France, Alsace-Lorraine (today France) and western Germany Result Entente victory Collapse of the German Empire Treaty of Versailles
Belligerents
Entente Powers: France French colonial empire British Empire Canada Australia  India  Newfoundland New Zealand  South Africa  Southern Rhodesia  United States (from 1917)  Belgium  Italy (from 1915) Portugal (from 1916) Russia (until 1917) Siam (from 1918)	Central Powers:  Germany  Austria-Hungary
Casualties and losses
~7,000,000 Breakdown Casualties by country 3,936,700 1,325,000 killed 2,300,000 wounded 311,700 missing/captured 2,700,000 709,613 killed/missing 1,837,613 wounded 174,826 captured 325,018 116,516 killed 204,002 wounded 4,500 missing/captured 90,000 40,367 killed ~40,000 wounded ~10,000 captured : 22,118 1,689 killed 13,751 wounded/sick 6,678 missing/captured 14,874 (1918 only) 4,500 killed 7,000 wounded 3,500 missing/captured 4,542 534,500 civilian deaths	~5,400,000 Breakdown Casualties by country 5,383,000 1,493,400 killed 3,115,000 wounded 775,000 captured 23,000+ (1918) 2,500+ killed 10,000+ wounded 10,500+ captured 425,000 civilian deaths

Entente Powers:
France

British Empire

Central Powers:

~7,000,000

~5,400,000

The Western Front or Western Theater was the main theatre of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France. This line remained essentially unchanged for most of the war.

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