WINDING-UP A.I.F.
SOME, BIG FIGURES. The winding up of official records in Melbourne of the A.I.F. .is a vast business. For instance, 600,000 index cards have been prepared. The papers show that 414,008 men were attested—even so late as the year ended June 30th of this year 1697 reached Base Records. Deaths now total 59,337, abroad or after return, besides 938 prior to embarkation. . To date 271,233 men have been discharged. In all 1078 had to be written rff "discharged 'as deserters." . Besides the files of correspondence already on the shelves, a million and a-half new ones were received from England. The 19J4-15 stars distributed total 113.000, and British war medals 223 000. with 97,000 more to go out. Memorial scrolls are being distributed at the rate of 1700 per week. During the year over 2,700,000 documents passed through the despatchroom.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17221, 11 August 1921, Page 10
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