lose the number of (one's) mess

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obsolete military and naval To die or be killed. Many good men lost the number of their mess after the sabotage attack on our ship.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aina (3)	ah-ee-nah	Japanese
Liis	LEE:S	Estonian
Zviad	-	Georgian
MÜMtaz	-	Turkish
Wulan	WOO-lahn	Indonesian, Javanese
Jamillah	-	Arabic