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Show BRITISH LOSE MANY OFFICERS AT GALLIPOL1 (Correspondence of .the Associated Frees.) LONDON, Aug. 31. Officers' casual tv lists for the fortnight ended August 30 Indicate the Bevsrity of the recent fighting in the Gallipoll peninsula, whence the bulk of the casualties are announced. Tbev show that the British armv lost 40? officers killed. 959 wounded and 13fi missing, miss-ing, a total of 1BQ2 for the fortnight. This number has been exceeded only once In any fortnight since the beginning of the war, 1627 casualties having been announced an-nounced between May B and May IS. Losses of officers since the outbreak of hostilities have now reached a total of 15.840. of whom 4790 have been killed, 9R9R wounded and 1862 reported missing. During the last fortnight Brigadier General A. H. Baldwin has been killed, three other brigadier generals have been wounded, nine lieutenant colonels killed and two reported missing. |