Widow Makers

[Barrett]

I got to pondering how many widows MvR created among the 83 men he likely killed. In perusing UTGOTRB I found mention of six married men KIA plus one survivor. Don't know if that's a full accounting, but it does seem likely, given the ages and circumstances. Sad fact is, many-many Great War aircrew hadn't lived long enough to get married. (Immelmann killed two 17-year-olds; there were lots & lots of aircrew under 21.) Looks like Voss killed five married men.

Which leads me to wonder: anybody aware of demographics as to what % of military personnel were married in the war, by nationality?

[Fallschirmjager]

Interestingly enough, of the "major" powers in the Great War, the nation with the oldest average line soldier was Turkey, with a ripe old age of 28.6 years. If taking into account the young marrying ages at the close of the 19th century/ opening of the 20th, as well as culutral Middle-East averages even younger (often adolescence or even children), it is a fairly safe conjecture, without an actual figure in front of me, that the Turks likely had the greatest
percentage of married men in their ranks. If someone comes up with an actual figure, I'd love to know.

Fallschirmjager