“NEW ZEALAND AT WAR”
SECOND EDITION ISSUED WELLINGTON, August 31. The mobilisation of New Zealand s manpower and womenpower at me peak period was 573,000. At the outbreak of war there were 804,000 males, including 355,000 of mihtaiy age. These figures are given in the second edition of “New Zealand at War,” just issued by the Director ol Publicity (Mr. J- T. Paul). Men enrolled in the Army, Navy, and Air Force totalled 189,000. Men sent overseas totalled 95,340, and the peak enrolment in the Home Guard was 124,000, while men enrolled in the civil defence organisation numbered 160,000. In addition, there were 100,000 women enrolled in civil defence and other auxiliary services. Nearly 8.500 women are shown as being in the armed forces, as follows: Army nurses, 350; Air Force, 3,500, Army, 4,000; Navy, 400. Casualties, it is shown, have been lighter than those suffered by New Zealand in a similar period of the last war. The figures for all the services with those for the last war, are as
follows: — This Last war. war. Deaths 6,104 13,222 Missing 326 1.288 Prisoners 7,934 367 Wounded 10,886 33,251
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1943, Page 3
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