NEW ZEALAND ARMY.
PARTICULARS AS TO RETURNED MEN.
Auckland, May 8.
Up to the end of last month the total number of soldiers returned to New Zealand was 19,314, states Sir< James Allen. Of that number, 569 were officers, and had been gazetted out of the Expeditionary Forces. Of the men, 14,080 had been discharged from the Main Body and reinforcements, 1,243 from the Samoan force, while 1,613 have returned to duty. Fifty-eight returned men have died while, under tho control of the Defence Department, 596 are in-patients under treatment at hospitals and convalescent homes, 521 are out-patients, 203 are on sick leave, 249 are awaiting discharge, 90 are awaiting return to duty, and 86 are on special leave. Five men deserted from the forces since returning, and three returned men are now in prison.
Up to the present about 93,000 have actually left New Zealand with Expeditionary Forces, while the men at present in training would swell the number to rather more than 98,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1824, 9 May 1918, Page 3
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165NEW ZEALAND ARMY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1824, 9 May 1918, Page 3
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