BACK FROM THE WAR
NEARLY 23,000 MEN RETURNED. A return just prepared by Base Records for the Minister of Defence shows that up till the end of August the total number of soldiers returned to New Zealand from overseas was 22,915, including 1279 members of the Samoan Force. Of the men who have come back, 17,409 officers and men of the Main Body and reinforcements have been discharged, and 1801 have return, ed to duty. Of those who are still under the control of the Defence Department, 2-56 are in-patients of hospitals, 334 are convalescent, and 756 are out-patients, and 49 are on sick leave. The total number of returned men includes six dpserters. 1
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 299, 6 September 1918, Page 6
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115BACK FROM THE WAR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 299, 6 September 1918, Page 6
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