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Regimental History of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in The Great War 1914-1918

New Zealand Cyclist Battalion. — Statistics

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New Zealand Cyclist Battalion.
Statistics.

Strength:
Officers Other Ranks Total
The original Cyclist Company 6 *211 217
Reinforcements 16 475 491
708

The above figures do not include 6 Officers and 200 other tanks, Australian Personnel, with 2nd Anzac Cyclist Battalion from 21/7/16 to 16/1/18.

Killed in action, N.Z. Officers Other Ranks Total
   Personnel only 4 55 59
Wounded.* 7 252 259

Number with Unit at Armistice, 11/11/18 8 Officers, 286 other ranks.

Billets.

During service in France and Belgium from 18/7/16 to 18/3/19, equalling 2 years and 8 months, the Unit occupied 82 different Billets and Bivouacs.

Three of these absorbed 11 months of the period, therefore for the balance of the time the Unit moved its location on an average about once a week.

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Grave of our Adjutant.Captain C. A. Dickeson, M.C. at Abeele.Private Dickeson, brother to the above in rear of cross.

Grave of our Adjutant.
Captain C. A. Dickeson, M.C. at Abeele.
Private Dickeson, brother to the above in rear of cross.

Our First Casualty.Grave of Corp. C. S. Des Barres, at Bois Grenier.

Our First Casualty.
Grave of Corp. C. S. Des Barres, at Bois Grenier.

One of our Last Casualties.Grave of Pvte. R. D. Walker. at Saultain.

One of our Last Casualties.
Grave of Pvte. R. D. Walker. at Saultain.

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