Technically Guillaume Apollinaire died during the war, 9 November 1918 according to wikipedia. That's just a nit tho, a little fact I came across looking up th

Technically Guillaume Apollinaire died during the war, 9 November 1918 according to wikipedia. That's just a nit tho, a little fact I came across looking up these authors, but it got me thinking... Theres a couple of interesting questions in there though - during the war he sustained wounds he was still suffering from at the time of his death. Did these weaken him in a way that made him more susceptible to the flu? Did the subpar conditions everyone in Paris was dealing with due to the total war (and fronts not too far away) contribute? In the broad scale - WW1 and the Spansish flu pandemic certainly had effects on each other. Many of the early outbreaks are linked directly to troop movements, and the living conditions in barracks, camps and trenches certainly aided the spread of the flu. Governments were keeping quiet about the potency and spread of the disease for morale reasons. Basically the question of "Is a soldier dying of spanish flu during ww1 a war-related death?" is much deeper than just sorting on proximate cause of death (e.g. flu, or gunshot, etc).