The World Wars overwhelmingly recruited from the upper classes of society, they killed close to half of the adult men in the British nobility, a similar percentage to those who died from violence during the Hundred Years War when the nobility was an explicit military class. 
Much higher rates of mortality are also observed in people from elite universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge, at least 50% higher.
And in officers compared to other ranks.
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