AUSTRALIAN LOSSES
Total Casualties Estimated
At 3000 (Rec. 12.30 aan.) SYDNEY, May 8. The Commanding Officer of the Aust alians in Greece, LieutenantGeneral Sir Thomas Blarney, has notified Mr P. C. Spender (Minister for the Army) that the total Australian casualties in Greece, including killed, prisoners, and missing, will probably not exceed 3000. Mr Spender revealed that the number of Australians who went to Greece was approximately 16.000. He expressed the opinion that the 3000 casualties .ould include “the 500 lost when a ship evacuating the forces was torpedoed, although I cannot be positive about it.” This was the first official disclosure about the latter incident. Mr Spender added that scores of Australians would in due course receive military decorations as a result of the fighting in Greece.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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128AUSTRALIAN LOSSES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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