CASUALTY LISTS
COVERING ALL WAR THEATRES
720 DEATHS FROM ACCIDENT OR DISEASE.
NUMBER NOT UNDULY HIGH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY. January 30. The Secretary for War. Mi- Oliver Stanley, stated in the House of Commons that casualty lists will be published from time to time of arbitrary length, covering casualties in all war theatres and not referring to any particular engagements. There are usually no indications of the date or circumstances in which the casualty occurred. The first list, covering the period to December 31. will be issued tomorrow, containing forty names of persons killed or wounded Io that date. The list further includes 720 deaths from accident or disease at home or overseas during the same period. Mr Stanley said there was no undue number of deaths from disease, the number being about what was expected in the circumstances. although there had been a number of regrettable deaths from traffic accidents.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1940, Page 6
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