NEW ZEALAND FORCES
CHRISTCHURCH, January 31. The armed forces of New Zealand total 157,000 men iu New Zealand and overseas, the Alinister of Defence, Air. Jones, told a meeting of electors of the Christchurch East electorate. There were 120,000 men in the Army, 30,000 in the Air Force, and 7000 in the Navy. Altogether 292,305 men would have been medically examined for the Army. When the Government came into power, he said, the Air Force personnel numbered 111. That number had increased to 766 when war broke out. while 1500 men had been sent to .England for short service commissions. New Zealand airmen had won 338 decorations. The Army had earned 444 decorations’, four being Victoria. Crosses, while 4‘~o had been mentioned in dispatches.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 108, 1 February 1943, Page 4
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124NEW ZEALAND FORCES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 108, 1 February 1943, Page 4
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