THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
PROGRESS OF DEMOBILISATION. WELLINGTON", August 25. During July 5687 officers and men of the Expeditionary Force returned to NewZealand, making the total to date 65,740. Of this number, 59,068 have been discharged or gazetted out of the forces, 1537 have returned to duty, 1338 await discharge, 59 await return to duty, 1331 are under treatment in hospitals or convalescent homes, and 1880 under treatment elsewhere. A return dated August 19 gives the following particulars of the demobilisation of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in England and France: —Strength in France, 12; strength in the _ United Kingdom, 3855; patients in hospital in the United Kingdom, 492; wives and families in the United Kingdom. 806; nurses and Red Cross workers to be evacuated, 35; evaouated from the United Kingdom since the armistice, 42,967.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3415, 29 August 1919, Page 9
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