N.Z. CASUALTIES
TOTAL OE 31,607;
FIGURES TO EJSID OF JULY Details of the active service casualties 'suffered by the New Zealand Forces up to July 31 last, the latest date for which completed details are available, were released today by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). The Hi 1 ,*?, Ss own as 31,607, including 8065 killed m the three arms of the Services, compared with total casualties of 58,004 (16,302 killed) for the equivalent period of the war of 1914----18. . . The casualty figures in the present war up to July 31 last are as follows:— ■
„„,.,■■■. Navy- Army. Air. Total. Killed ......... 367 . 5,159 2,539 8,065 Missing ........ 61 465 437 963 AVpunded . . 125 14;477 728 15,330 Prisoners of war 48 6,726 A75 7,249 Totals ...... 601 26,827 4,179 31,607 .: The comparative totals^ for the equivalent period of the last war are:— Killed .................. 16,302 Missing ,. g4 Wounded 41 262 ' Prisoners of war ...... 356 - • . I Total- , ............ ,58,004
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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151N.Z. CASUALTIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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