TWO WARS
INTERESTING FIGURES ABOUT THE BOER WAR. In view of the heavy casualties reported in our Expeditionary Forcc from (lay to day, it is interesting to recall what happened in the South African War. In that war, which lasted for three years, New Zoaland sent in ten contingents '6505 men. The strengths of tho contingents were as follow:— First, 220; \Sccond, 270; Third, 2G6Fourth, 472; Fifth, 616; Sixth, 612; Seventh, 608; Eighth, 13 42; Ninth, 1218; Tenth, 1081. The total number of deaths was 232, made up as follows: Killed in action, 58; died of wounds, 10; accidentally killed 25; died of disease, 139. The heaviest losses WGI'G suffered by tho Seventh, who lost 34 men in action, and tho Eighth, who lost 17 men killed in a railway accident. In the Eighth and Tenth not one man was killed in action or died of wounds, and in the Ninth only one man was killed in action. Those three contingents were the biggest, making up 3-441 of tlie total of 6505'.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2500, 29 June 1915, Page 9
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172TWO WARS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2500, 29 June 1915, Page 9
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