Dartmouth Casualties

WITH THE European phase of the war over, Dartmouth's service casualties as of July 15 stood at 234 dead and 32 missing. These figures, based on information which has reached the Alumni Records Office, compare with Ill Dartmouth men killed in the whole of World War I.

Of the 234 Dartmouth men who have died in service, 84 lost their lives in the European theatre of operations, 74 in the Pacific, seven in the North Atlantic, two in the. Aleutians, and one in South America. Sixty-six died in this country, the great majority of these casualties (42) resulting from airplane crashes at aviation training bases.

By branches of the service, 154 of the dead were in the Army, 46 in the Navy and 24 in the Marines. Three of those killed were in the Coast Guard, two with' the American Field Service, two with the R. A. F., and one each with the Canadian Air Force, the Norwegian Air Force, and the King's Royal Rifles.

The classes of those who died in service range from 1902 through 1947. with the heaviest toll in the Class of 1941, which has lost 27 men. The Class of 1940 has lost 23 men and 1942 has lost 22. Sixty per cent of the Dartmouth war dead are concentrated in the seven classes from 1940 to 1946.

Casualties represent about 3 per cent of the 8,977 Dartmouth men whose names appear on the College's service roster.