EMPIRE WAR LOSSES
SEVENTY PER CENT SUFFERED BY UNITED KINGDOM FIGURES TO END OF 1941. MIDDLE EAST CAMPAIGNS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, February 6. Figures of the casualties suffered by British land forces from all parts of the Empire up to the end of 1941 show that 71.3 per cent of the total casualties—dead, wounded, missing and prisoners —have been suffered by United Kingdom troops; 18.2 per cent by the Dominions; 5.5 per cent by the Indian Army (which includes many officers and men from the Mother Country) and five per cent by colonial troops. Over a third of the total Empire forces in the Greek, Cretan and Syrian campaigns were from the Mother Country and more than half the forces involved in both the Libyan campaigns have been from the United Kingdom.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1942, Page 4
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138EMPIRE WAR LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1942, Page 4
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