Unfortunately official records and the Australian War Memorial have not bothered to compile the numbers. This is to a degree a product to over-emphasis on the AIF, whose figures are readily available, and an underlying disregard by some of the role played by the Citizen Soldiers in peace and war.
39.800 Australian Soldiers were killed during WW2.
Yes, during WW1 and WW2, there was no conscriprtion (compulsory military service). Soldiers went to war by choice. But in the Vietnam war, conscription was introduce in Australia and the soldiers were forced for the Vietnam war to go and fight.
The South West Pacific.
Quite impressively during WW2 Australia with just a population of 7 million people raised an army of 1.2 million soldiers.
17,002 soldiers lived in WW2
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no on is really sure but about 72million died so probably about 100million were in ww2
African American were drafted into both World Wars, but into integrated units in WWII. The Draft was begun before America enter WWI. By WWII the draft was enforced at the federal and local government level by armed forces.
300,000 soldiers from Australia fought in World War 1. 62,000 of those soldiers died. That leaves 238,000 soldiers that survived World War 1 from Australia. If you are asking how many WW1 veterans there are from Australia, there is currently 1 (Jack Ross), who celebrated his 110th birthday on March 11, 2009.
400,000 british soldiers died in ww2