APPROXIMATELY 3000
Australian Casualties In Greece
FORCE OF 16,000 MEN (Received May 9, 12.10 a.m.>
SYDNEY, May 8.
The General Officer Commanding the Imperial Force, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Blarney, has notified the Army Minister. Mr. Spender, that the total Australian casualties in Greece, including killed, prisoners and missing will probably not exceed 3000. , Mr. Spender revealed that the number of Australians who tvent to Greece was approximately 16.000. He expressed the opinion that the 3000 casualties would include “lhe 500 lost when a ship evacuating the forces torpedoed, though 1 cannot be positive about it.” This was the first oflicial disclosure about the latter incident. Mr. Spender added that scores of Australians would, in due course, receive military decorations as a result of the fighting in Greece.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 190, 9 May 1941, Page 8
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