Title: Bardia to Enfidaville

Author: Stevens, Major-General W. G.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1962, 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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I: Allied Battle Casualties, North Africa, October 1942–May 1943

This table was prepared by the Historical Section of the United Kingdom Cabinet Office from returns supplied by the War Office in September 1946. ‘Missing’ are included under ‘Prisoners’ (P). In each column officer casualties are shown by the first figure, other-rank casualties by the second figure. New Zealand casualties for the period covered by this volume are given in Section II of this appendix.

	United Kingdom			Australia			New Zealand			South Africa			India			Free French
Period	K	W	P	K	W	P	K	W	P	K	W	P	K	W	P	K	W	P1
Oct–Nov 1942	224	588	67	54	138	6	32	89	2	22	65	1	2	9	1	5	6	–
Alamein–Agheila	1,864	6,170	898	559	1,870	138	329	1,278	64	173	823	2	31	126	7	20	140	13
Nov 42–Jan 43	30	119	10	–	–	–	3	17	4	4	4	1	2	4	–	–	–	–
Agheila–Buerat	302	1,115	110	–	–	–	43	144	10	10	47	1	5	14	–	1	–	–
Jan–Feb 1943	26	69	9	–	–	–	2	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Buerat–Zuara	219	706	130	–	–	–	16	59	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	1	–
Feb–Mar 1943	27	115	30	–	–	–	1	3	–	–	2	–	1	–	–	–	1	–
Zuara–Mareth	351	1,307	459	–	–	–	10	82	4	–	14	–	2	10	–	5	14	8
Mar–Apr 1943	110	348	30	–	–	–	16	50	–	–	–	–	9	29	–	4	2	–
Mareth-Enfidaville	910	3,758	689	–	–	–	193	667	6	6	25	24	37	328	7	8	19	–
Apr-May 1943	50	224	16	–	–	–	13	52	–	–	–	1	2	29	1	7	14	–
Enfidaville–end	465	2,503	144	–	–	–	127	627	51	–	4	5	98	401	10	59	231	21
Total Eighth Army	4,578	17,022	2,592	613	2,008	144	785	3,075	141	215	986	35	189	950	26	109	428	42