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killed in action

military casualty classification used for deaths of personnel, includes accidents and illness
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killed in action
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Summary

killed in action is a military casualty classification[1]. It draws 32,810 Wikipedia views per month (military casualty classification category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: manner of death[3]
  • Subclass of: casualty[4], war victim[5], military casualties of war[6]
  • Commons category: Killed in action[7]
  • Unicode character: ⚔[8]
  • Different from: line-of-duty death[9], death in battle[10], killed by own invention[11], suicide[12], autoerotic fatality[13], killed in the exercise of their profession[14]
  • Female form of label: zabitá v boji[15], poległa w boju[16], قتلت في معركة[17], загінула ў баі[18], padla v boju[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]

Why It Matters

killed in action has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 125 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Tiziana Deluca · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs
    Bncf thesaurus id → 18537
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bncf thesaurus id: 18537"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → casualty, war victim, military casualties of war
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 201, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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