New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

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In surgery, many important advances had been made in the year since the pre-Alamein battles, and surgeons had achieved a high degree of efficiency in the conditions peculiar to war. The low death rate among wounded who reached a medical unit was adequate testimony to this.

Admissions to Field Ambulances, 1943
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Total
Sick BC Sick BC Sick BC Sick BC Sick BC Sick BC
4 Fd Amb
NZ 15 21 409 6 155 352 309 566 74 15 962 960
Others 17 87 40 1 46 177 101 312 10 7 214 584
PW 10 131 38 179
5 Fd Amb
NZ 127 33 16 189 83 115 420 69 52 516 588
Others 73 71 1 42 51 72 3 17 119 211
PW 15 27 42
6 Fd Amb
NZ 130 30 32 249 26 50 39 17 227 346
Others 247 212 20 172 9 30 5 5 281 419
PW 4 79 3 18 1 3 102
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609 468 466 7 484 1309 563 1533 200 114 2322 3431

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The New Zealand Division's casualties in Tunisia, March–May 1943, were:

Sick 1008
Battle casualties 1804
Admissions, etc., 1 NZ CCS
Location Period Sick BC Total RTU Deaths Amputations
Sirte 4–12 Jan 331 154 485 26 4 4
Tamet 14–31 Jan 468 287 755 100 14 1
Tamet 1–8 Feb 60 12 72 89 1
Zuara 11–26 Feb 305 142 447 75 1
Medenine 27–28 Feb 54 51 105
Medenine 1–30 Mar 561 975 1536 122 19 16
Teboulbou 31 Mar 17 40 57 2
Teboulbou 1–8 Apr 37 523 560 16 7
El Djem 13–30 Apr 666 1037 1703 92 10 4
Sidi Bou Ali 1–23 May 870 755 1625 41 13 12
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3369 3976 7345 547 77 45
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New Zealand Casualties, Tunisia, 20 March–13 May 1943
Killed in Action 304
Died of Wounds 64
Wounded 1221
Prisoners of War 31

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Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, 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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