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Communications on Gallipoli itself had broken down; the place was chaos and
no-one had any real idea of casualty numbers, the death toll or the location
of survivors.
By the end of the campaign, 8556 New Zealanders had served on Gallipoli with
the NZEF. 2721 died. 4752 were wounded (some more than once). The 8556 men
who served on Gallipoli made 14,720 landings.
Note: New Zealand and Australia were not the only countries fighting at
Gallipoli. The ANZAC forces were actually quite small in relation to the
British and French forces. There was also a Gurkha (Indian) contingent
involved in the campaign. The Australians suffered 26,111 casualties of whom
8,141 were killed; Britain lost a total of 120,000 casualties; France 27
000; and the Turkish total was probably about 300,000. Their official total
of 86,692 dead and 164,617 wounded or sick was an under-estimation.
Anzac Day Casualty List
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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