Figure 1

The British Army on the Western Front: force levels and shell stocks, July 1916 and February 1918 (% of July 1916 levels)

Source: Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920 (War Office, 1922), pp. 64(iii) and 481. The July 1916 number of soldiers is the average of June and August. Get the data