AUSTRALIAN LOSSES
IN GREEK CAMPAIGN | PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN 3,000. GENERAL BLAMEY'S ESTIMATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY. May 8. The General Officer Commanding the Imperial Force, LieutenantGeneral Sir Thomas Blarney, has notified the Army Minister, Mr Spender, that the total Australian casualties in Greece, including killed, prisoners and missing will probably not exceed 3,000. Mr Spender revealed that the number of Australians who went to Greece was approximately 16,000. He expressed the opinion that the 3,000 casualties would include “the 500 lost when a ship evacuating the forces was torpedoed, though 1 cannot be positive about it.” This was the first official disclosure about the latter incident. Mr Spender added that scores of Australians would, in due course, receive military decorations as a result of the lighting in Greece.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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