CASUALTIES TO DATE.
NEARLY SOOO. (rnzsa association* telegham.) "WELLINGTON, December 3. Tho latest returns issued by the Dcfence authorities summarise the casualties in tho Expeditionary Force to November 29th aa follows:— Officers. Men. Killed ... 74 1042 Died of wounds 2 I 498 Died oi' clib'ease 8 -41 Missing ... 22 636 AVoundod ... 214 5058 Prisoners ... — 22 Totals ... 339 7497 Aggregate for all ranks, 7536. A MISSING SOLDIER. Trooper Robert Bruce Burn, a son of Mrs Burn, 231 Hereford street, and a brother of Lieutenant Burn, tho, aviator, who was killed in Mesopotamia, has not been heard of sinco August oth. Troonor Burn's relatives havo been making continuous enquiries respecting him, but can get no news of him. If any returned s-oldicr knows any news of Trooper Bum ho will bo relieving a great anxiety by communicating the fact. It has been reported that Trooper Burn was in a charge on August 6th or August 7th (preliminary to tho big attack of August Bth\ and that he was on that occasion severely wounded in the chest: He was spoken to by at lo'ast half a dozen men at the dressing station on one of the benches, but from then on no word has been obtained of hiin. Trooper Burn's number is 7-313.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15453, 4 December 1915, Page 11
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