CASUALTIES COMPARED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9178, 29 June 1915, Page 6

CASUALTIES COMPARED.

AN INTERESTING RETURN

(From Our Wellington Correspondent)

WELLINGTON/ June 28

A return prepared by the Defence authorities shows the number of men who lost thoir lives while serving with the Now Zealand forces during the South African war. The figures seemed big enough 13 or 14 years ago, when people of this country wero scanning newspapers with anxious eyes to see what toll of life, was being ' exacted.* from the lads who had gone to the front, but they are reduced to comparative insignificance by tho casiw alty lists that -are coming from the Dardanelles. New Zeland sent C 505 men in all to South Africa, and 232 men lost their lives, the total being jna-do up as follows:;— Killed in action 58, died of wounds 10, accidentally killed 25, died of disease 139. The number of those accidentally killed was swelled by the loss of 15 or 16 members of the Eighth . Contingent, as the result of a railway accident. The total number of men who fell in action or died of wounds was not more than 68, and that loss was (spread over a period of over two years'. Tho Dominion has lost as many men in tho Dardanelles in two days.