23 Battalion

Summary of Casualties

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Summary of Casualties

Killed or Died of Wounds Wounded Wounded and PW Prisoners of War Died on Active Service Total
Offrs ORs Offrs ORs Offrs ORs Offrs ORs ORs
Greece 1 8 2 6 6 3 27 53
Crete 1 50 8 121 2 61 56 299
Libya, 1941 25 8 60 10 7 110
Egypt, 1942 11 104 30 317 1 10 2 60 535
Tripolitania and Tunisia 6 34 15 184 239
Italy 20 176 45 615 1 2 15 874
17 17
39 397 108 1303 3 88 7 165 17 2127

Ten other ranks died while prisoners of war.

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Title: 23 Battalion

Author: Ross, Angus

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1959, 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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