CASUALTY RECORD // December 1, 1914
Battle of Limanowa
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
2 sides catalogued · combined 216,472 estimated
Austria-Hungary
106,472
Medium-confidence figure
Russian Empire
110,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Limanowa-Łapanów, fought from 1 December to 13 December 1914, engaged roughly 272,000 Austro-Hungarian troops against approximately 282,736 Russian forces near Limanowa. Casualties on both sides were severe, with Austria-Hungary suffering over 106,000 and Russia approximately 110,000. The engagement was commanded at senior levels by Conrad von Hötzendorf and a corps-level cadre including Boroevic, Szurmay, and Gerok on the Austro-Hungarian side, facing Russian commanders Ivanov, Dimitriev, and Brusilov. The scale of losses on both sides in a two-week span underscores the intensity of the fighting on the Eastern Front in the opening months of the war, a theater defined by high operational tempo and attritional combat before positional warfare fully set in.
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