NEW ZEALAND'S WAR EFFORT
AN OSIICIAL STATEMENT.
Detivils of Ne-w Zealand'? war effort in jnen »nd mpnpy will he found, authoritatively seated, iov"- the first tirqe, in tjie 1920 Official Year Book. The total number who attests?} in the Expeditionary Force, and. who left fpr service overt seas waa 30^5 officers, 9§,809 other ra-nfe and 6^o nufses, A total of 9924 troops were in training at the date of the armistice so that the complete number of nurses and troops pvovided- for service pverss^s at thp cessation of hoptiliti^ Was 110,368, op more than 10 per cent, pf the Pqminion'si meg,n pppula-tion jji 1914. A' farther tfltel of: 3370 we Hnpwn to hfve left |{evr to serve in British and Austiulian forpes. Of the total Qf 124,211 mciv provided from the commencement of t^e wap, 91,941 were volunteer^. Wastage while undergoing training accounted for- a loss to the force pf 11,333. -.-..
The total number qf deaths from the Wa,r a-nd its consequences in the Expeditionary Force wag. 16,781. Aj> ft'lay, lp?0, spme 3057 service patjents warp still undergoing trefttmept, i\\ Ifew Zealand.
The total war expenditure up to 31st March,, 1920, is given as £76,953,076.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 92, 19 April 1921, Page 7
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195NEW ZEALAND'S WAR EFFORT Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 92, 19 April 1921, Page 7
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