Over 3000 Missing Australians Located
CASUALTIES COMPARED WITH LAST WAR Received Wednesday, 11.55 p.m. SYDNEY, July 30. From official sources and the International Red Cross it is learned that over 3000 Australian soldiers hitherto reported missing have bene located safe and sound, declared Mr. P. C. Spender (War Minister.) The majority of those whose names appeared in recent casualty lists, he added, are prisoners of war, while no fewer than 550 previously reported missing had rejoined their units. He pointed out that the relative figures of casualties in the present war and the last was disclosed that in 1914-15 the A.I.F. suffered 35 per cent, of casualties of which at least 30 per cent, were killed Dr died of wounds. The casualty figures revealed in modern warfare did not result in the depletion of manpower in any way comparable with the hand-to-hand trench lighting of the last war.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 180, 31 July 1941, Page 5
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