Summary of Casualties

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Summary of Casualties

Killed or Died of Wounds Wounded Prisoners of War Died on Active Service Total
Offrs ORs Offrs ORs Offrs ORs ORs
Greece 4 20 2 43 4 76 149
Crete 5 75 5 124 2 86 297
Libya, 1941 2 57 13 113 9 354 548
Egypt, 1942 5 64 6 111 12 195 393
Italy 12 73 17 146 - 7 255
19 19
28 289 43 537 27 718 19 1661

Included in the prisoners of war are 4 officers and 124 other ranks who were wounded when captured. Thirty other ranks lost their lives while prisoners.

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Title: 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment

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Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1957, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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