ESTIMATE OF DEATHS AMONG RETURNED MEN PROBABLY EXAGGERATED
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. December 4. A cable message from Sydney yesterday said that Mr W. Stagg, secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ League of New South Wales, estimates that over 60,000 Australian soldiers have died since their discharge from the forces, which is actually more than were killed in battle. Base Records, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which has kept a careful record from available sources of deaths of soldiers after discharge, states New Zealand deaths to August 31, 1928, as 3604, nearly one-fifth of the Dominion’s casualties during the war. As New Zealand had approximately one-third of Australia’s strength at the war it would appear that deaths after discharge should be in the vicinity of 13,000. It is understood that the military authorities in Australia do not keep actual records of deaths which have occurred subsequent to the war, and therefore it appears that the figures in the cable are, at best, a rough estimate and exaggerated.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 5
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