Since the beginning of the war, the total forces employed by the British Empire in the various theatres of war, have amounted to a total of _eight million, six hundred and fifty-four thousand_ (24 per cent of the total white male population), of which the United Kingdom supplied 5,704,416 (25.36 per cent), and the Dominions, and Colonies, 1,425,864.

The Indian and Coloured troops amounted to 1,524,000.

If the Navy, the Merchant Service, and the men and women employed in various auxiliary military services at home are added, the total recruiting effort of the Empire reaches to much more than _ten millions_.
As to the financial part of this country in the war, by March 22nd, 1919, the war expenditure of Great Britain had reached a total of L9,482,442,482, of which rather more than _two thousand five hundred millions_ have been raised by taxation.

Included in this total are sums amounting to L1,683,500,000, lent to our Allies and Dominions.
For the total casualties of the war, in an earlier chapter I have given the approximate figures so far as they can as yet be ascertained, amounting to at least some _twenty millions_.

At such appalling cost then, in death, suffering and that wealth which represents the accumulated labour of men, have the liberties of Europe been rescued from the German attack.