OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST OF THE

PRUSSIAN I ARMY CORPS

UNDER LT-GEN VON ZIETEN II DURING THE 1815 CAMPAIGN

("Verlust-Liste des ersten Preußischen Armee-Korps in den verschiedenen Gefechten des Feldzuges von 1815")

edited by Geert van Uythoven

	brigade	killed				wounded				prisoner or missing				total
	brigade	Off.	NCO	Other	Horse	Off.	NCO	Other	Horse	Off.	NCO	Other	Horse	Off.	NCO	Other	Horse
15. and 16. June: combats near Gilly and Gosselies, battle of Ligny	1. Brigade	7	11	223	17	35	79	586	7	5	27	1,407	-	47	117	2,216	24
	2. Brigade	10	72	855	50	61	171	1,990	21	5	97	1,291	100	76	340	4,136	171
	3. Brigade	11	21	163	-	31	38	647	-	3	89	1,480	-	45	148	2,290	-
	4. Brigade	4	24	614	4	15	24	486	-	5	101	1,295	1	24	149	2,395	5
	Reserve Cavalry	4	11	97	211	18	24	176	164	9	19	269	301	31	54	542	676
	Reserve Artillery	1	2	22	97	1	7	59	26	-	-	9	7	2	9	90	130
Total:		37	141	1,974	379	161	343	3,944	218	27	333	5,751	409	225	817	11,669	1,006
18. June: battle of Belle-Alliance (Waterloo)	1. Brigade	-	1	30	5	7	10	140	2	-	2	109	2	7	13	279	9
	Reserve Cavalry	-	-	2	9	1	-	10	17	-	-	-	-	1	-	12	26
	Reserve Artillery	-	-	1	4	-	1	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	4	6
Total:		-	1	33	18	8	11	153	21	-	2	109	2	8	14	295	41
21. June: bombardment of Avesnes	3. Brigade	-	-	4	-	-	1	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	18	-
21. June: bombardment of Avesnes	Reserve Artillery	-	1	1	5	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4	5
Total:		-	1	5	5	-	1	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	22	5
26. June: before La Fère	Reserve Artillery	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	2	1
Total:		-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	2	1
28. June: near Nantieul and Villers Coterets	2. Brigade	-	-	2	-	1	3	26	-	-	-	16	-	1	3	44	-
28. June: near Nantieul and Villers Coterets	Reserve Cavalry	-	2	2	16	1	7	38	27	-	-	4	9	1	9	44	52
Total:		-	2	4	16	2	10	64	27	-	-	20	9	2	12	88	52
2. and 3. July± near Sevre, Meudon, Moulinot and Issy before Paris	1. Brigade	1	7	84	12	18	34	365	6	-	2	197	-	19	43	646	18
	2. Brigade	-	3	133	4	8	17	241	2	-	-	7	-	8	20	382	6
	3. Brigade	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-
	4. Brigade	-	-	27	-	3	11	105	-	-	-	-	-	3	11	132	-
	Reserve Cavalry	-	1	-	11	-	1	2	5	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	16
	Reserve Artillery	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	2	2	1
Total:		1	12	244	27	29	64	718	14	-	2	205	-	30	78	1,168	41

I Corps:		38	157	2261	446	200	429	4,896	280	27	337	6,086	421	265	923	13,224	1,146

“The above losses are those just after the various combats, based on the returns of the respective brigades. So depicted is the total amount of men and horses that became ‘hors de combat’, or not able to fight anymore at that moment.

It is a fact that the initial and rather fierce attack of the enemy on 15 June against Thuin, Gilly, and Gosselies was directed almost completely against the outposts of the 1st and 2nd Brigade, as well as against both brigades themselves. In this fighting, the fusilier battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment, as well as the one of the 2nd Westphalian Landwehr Infantry Regiment, were nearly completely destroyed by far superior cavalry attacks: on the evening of the 15th, both battalions were combined into a single battalion, together counting just 150 men.

This loss, by the way adding especially to the honour of the landwehr battalion as it has distinguished itself during very disadvantageous circumstances, should not be ignored. However, because of the fact that the French had to retreat after Belle-Alliance [Waterloo], they were not able to take with them their prisoners and the latter quickly rejoined their units again, the army corps receiving a very convenient addition. But because of this fact the loss sustained during the fighting is not diminished by it.

The further the army corps advanced into France, the stronger it became, because of the daily arrival of reinforcements as well as the return of the lightly wounded. Therefore the returns from the time the army corps was in Paris differ substantially from those forwarded by the brigades directly after combat.

The returns above depict – as the title says – the loss during the various combats themselves, and not the loss of the army corps on entering Paris. For example, the total loss of the Reserve Cavalry was according to the above returns 698 men; of these only 373 have been killed in battle or wounded, the remainder had been taken prisoner or had lost their horses. So they were put out of combat, but the greater part joined their units on the way to Paris again one way or another. So if one would say that the loss of the Reserve Cavalry was in total only 373 men, so only about half the amount given above, he has right regarding the loss during the whole campaign. However, this is not depicted here. The same is the case with the infantry and artillery.

This all to clarify things and as a reply to those judging that the figures given above are to high”.

Source: Militair-Wochenblatt No.9 (Berlin 1816)