LAST OF THE N.Z.E.F.
THE MEN STILL ABROAD, The latest demobilisation figures available »how that there are about 300 men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force •till abroad. These figures tell the rltion as oil January 26. Unfortunatereturns furnished to New Zealand 'Headquarters are not quite exact, in that two different sets of figures da not agree.' In one case the total, is shown to lie 305 men. and in the other 318. There has been some difficulty about tracing a small number of men in the final clean up in England, and pro* babljr thia accounts for the discrepancy. In wiy case, the number of men involved is very small. The strength of the force abroad is as follows:
On duty in France 6 In the United Kingdom .. 287 , Total 318 Included in the number 287 in the above list ara 87 men with wives and QU- families in the United. Kingdom. Another list is as follows— Awaiting repatriation, MO; for discharge in United Kingdom, 28; on duty in. France,'(!; delerteH, 31; total, 309. The number «rf men Evacuated since ihe armistice is 46,848.' There are 244 nen (till on the vatef, coming by the ithanlc."
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1920, Page 5
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