New Zealand sent around 100,000 men and women to the conflict. The population at the time was just over 1 million, so a significant portion of the population went. Around 18,000 died and around 40,000 were wounded. Given the population of New Zealand at the time, this casualty rate per capita was greater than any other nation that took part in the war. When thinking about World War One, we, as New Zealanders often think about the battle at Gallipoli, there 2721 New Zealanders lost their lives, this is about a quarter of the New Zealanders that landed there.
We don't really know exactly how many soldiers died in Turkey during the Gallipoli Campaign 1915 because of the nature of this bloody battle. When they were excavating a part of the Gallipoli are in order to build this controversial new road in Gallipoli a few years ago, they unearthed yet more bones. Official figures though indicates that 2431 New Zealand soldiers lost their lives out of 7571 total New Zealand casualties.
4,000 or fewer.
In the last fifty years New Zealand has been involved in five wars. The country was involved in the Vietnam War, Indonesiaâ??Malaysia confrontation, Gulf War, 2006 East Timorese crisis, and War in Afghanistan.
Australian figures were 13,855 wounded or missing, although some sources say as many as 26,000 were injured. New Zealand figures indicate that about 7,000 ANZAC soldiers were injured.
Twice. In 1987 and in 2011.
51 soldiers were involved
There were 116,000 US casualties. 4,744,000 were involved.
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2,721 New Zealand soldiers died and 4,752 were injured.
11,900 New Zeland Soldiers were killed during World War 2.
14,000 new zealand soldiers went to Gallipoli
There were 116,000 US casualties. 4,744,000 were involved.
5,150 New Zealand's soldiers were wounded or missing in Gallipoli.
There were approximately 837 New Zealand soldiers killed in France during World War 2. This was not just on their home front, though. It was all over the battlefield.
5 soldiers were wounded in the Battle of Trenton.
50 million soldiers from all 57 countries involved in the conflict