The give French casualties as and in 1930, Hermann Wendt recorded French Second Army and German 5th Army casualties of respectively from , not taking account of the inclusion or exclusion of lightly wounded. In 2006, McRandle and Quirk used the to increase the by , which gave compared to the French Official History record to 20 December 1916, of casualties. The , which explicitly excluded lightly wounded, compared German losses at Verdun in 1916, averaging per thousand men, with the 9th Army in Poland 1914 which had a casualty average of the 11th Army in Galicia 1915 averaging , the 1st Army on the Somme 1916 average of and the 2nd Army average for the Somme 1916 of Jankowski estimated an equivalent figure for the French Second Army of including lightly wounded. With a adjustment to the German figure of to include lightly wounded, following the views of McRandle and Quirk; the loss rate is similar to the estimate for French casualties.
