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Appendix 1 - 6th Division Casualties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

Mark Johnston
Affiliation:
Scotch College
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No two sources on 6th Division units or campaigns seem to agree entirely on casualty figures. For example, the 2/11th Battalion history provides two casualty tables and explains that the differences in them cannot be resolved. Consequently, the following tables can readily be challenged. They should be viewed with that warning in mind. Most or all figures should be accurate within a few per cent, but the tables are intended only as a guide to the numbers of casualties suffered by the division in its various campaigns, in its various units, and overall. Here DOAS (Died on Active Service) figures include only those who died during or immediately after campaigns. Almost every unit also lost a small number of men to illness or accident between campaigns and in captivity. WIA (Wounded in Action) does not include died of wounds or accidentally wounded, where these can be identified. Men wounded twice are counted as two wounded.

The words of caution apply with extra force to the figures in Table 13, which are estimates, based mainly on the official histories, of the numbers of men from original 6th Division units killed, wounded and captured in its various campaigns. Most figures should be accurate to within a few per cent.

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The Proud 6th
An Illustrated History of the 6th Australian Division 1939–1946
, pp. 241 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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