THREE THOUSAND SAFE
MISSING AUSTRALIANS COMPARISONS IN CASUALTIES WITH LAST WAR. Sydney July 30. From official sources and the International Red Cross more than 3000 Australian soldiers hitherto reported missing have been found safe and sound, declared the Army Minister, Mr. P. C. Spender. The majority of those whose names appeared in recent casualty list, he added, are prisoners of war, while 550 previously reported missing had rejoined their units.
He pointed out that relative figures of casualties in the present war and in the last disclosed that in 1914-15 the R.I.F. suffered 35 per cent, casualties, of which at least 30 per cent, were killed or died of wounds. Casualty figures revealed that modern warfare did not result in the depletion of man-power in any way comparable with the hand-to-hand trench fighting of the last war.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 6
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