Summary of Casualties

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Summary of Casualties

Killed Wounded Prisoners of War
Offrs ORs Offrs ORS Offrs ORs
Greece 1941 8 1 12 3 30
Crete 1941 17 1 15 2 86
Libya 1941 2 22 2 45 10 27
Egypt 1942 3 47 5 117 4 82
Tripolitania and Tunisia 1942–43 3 11 3 49
Italy 1943–44 2 32 12 120 13
Italy 1945 3 32 8 118
total 13 169 32 476 19 238

The killed include men who were killed in action or who died of wounds and those presumed to have been killed in action; the prisoners of war include one officer and 27 other ranks who were wounded before capture and 15 other ranks who were killed or died of wounds or sickness while prisoners of war. One officer and 16 other ranks who died on active service are not included in the above casualties.

†Included in these figures are one officer and one other rank who were wounded in 1945 before the battalion's conversion to infantry.

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Title: 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion

Author: Kay, Robin

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1958, 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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