MAFEKING LOSSES.
London, May 29. The total casualties amongst the garrison during the siege of Mafeking numbered 924.
Out of forty-four white officers six were killed and fifteen wounded.
Among the 975 men under arms sixty, one were killed, a hundred and three wounded, and twenty-six are missing. Twenty-five coloured men were killed and fifty-eight wounded. The non-combatant casualties were chiefly among Baralong natives. Only four non-combatant whites were killed and five wounded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 2
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