New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
Appendix I
Appendix I
1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | ||||||
Offrs | ORs | Offrs | ORs | Offrs | ORs | Offrs | ORs | Offrs | ORs | |
Jan | 1.36 | 1.35 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.28 | 1.29 | 1.89 | 2.2 | ||
Feb | 1.56 | 1.53 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.08 | 1.73 | 2.05 | ||
Mar | 0.75 | 0.92 | 1.5 | 1.49 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.69 | 2.13 | ||
Apr | 0.98 | 1.53 | 1.96 | 2.35 | 1.4 | 1.35 | 2.07 | 3.25 | ||
May | 1.37 | 1.39 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.75 | 2.0 | 1.52 | 2.35 | ||
Jun | 1.5 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.95 | 1.46 | 1.73 | 1.87 | 2.79 | ||
Jul | 2.0* | 2.2* | 1.87 | 2.43 | 2.2 | 2.04 | 1.79 | 2.24 | ||
Aug | 2.4 | 2.03 | 2.0* | 2.2* | 1.84 | 2.09 | 1.96 | 2.17 | 2.05 | 2.41 |
Sep | 1.9 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.46 | 1.95 | 2.33 | 2.55 | ||
Oct | 2.0 | 2.2 | 3.62 | 3.57 | 0.84 | 1.12 | 2.74 | 3.16 | ||
Nov | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.09 | 1.19 | 2.84 | 2.84 | ||
Dec | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.76 | 1.85 | 1.85 | 1.94 | 2.94 |
1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | ||||||
Sick and BC | Sick | Sick and BC | Sick | Sick and BC | Sick | Sick and BC | Sick | ||
Jan | 5.62 | 4.4 | 5.89 | 4.55 | 7.36 | 5.91 | Italy | ||
9.60 | 5.82 | 3.28 | 3.28 | Egypt | |||||
Feb | 5.52 | 4.86 | 7.77 | 6.13 | 5.77 | 4.67 | Italy | ||
7.17 | 4.01 | 2.7 | 2.7 | Egypt | |||||
Mar | 6.61 | 4.74 | 9.05 | 5.74 | 5.78 | 5.0 | Italy | ||
4.67 | 3.21 | 4.2 | 4.2 | Egypt | |||||
Apr | 7.97 | 4.98 | 7.71 | 5.46 | 9.18 | 4.77 | Italy | ||
4.7 | 2.97 | 5.1 | 5.1 | Egypt | |||||
May | 5.45 | 5.88 | 4.02 | 7.49 | 5.79 | 4.69 | 3.43 | Italy | |
3.93 | 3.73 | 5.3 | 5.3 | Egypt | |||||
Jun | 6.57 | 6.32 | 5.25 | 4.43 | 5.96 | 5.08 | 4.38 | 3.58 | Italy |
3.26 | 3.16 | 4.48 | 4.48 | Egypt | |||||
Jul | 12.03 | 7.83 | 5.26 | 5.03 | 8.25 | 5.98 | 3.04 | 2.97 | Italy |
3.08 | 3.08 | Egypt | |||||||
Aug | 13.48 | 8.49 | 4.47 | 4.39 | 7.69 | 5.64 | 3.56 | 3.52 | Italy |
3.79 | 3.79 | Egypt | |||||||
Sep | 12.3 | 9.1 | 4.59 | 4.54 | 10.62 | 7.84 | 4.67 | 4.64 | Italy |
3.8 | 3.8 | Egypt | |||||||
Oct | 13.02 | 11.2 | 3.97 | 3.93 | 9.96 | 7.84 | 4.44 | 4.43 | Italy |
4.94 | 4.94 | Egypt | |||||||
Nov | 13.41 | 8.96 | 3.29 | 3.14 | 9.81 | 8.38 | 3.79 | 3.77 | Italy |
4.3 | 4.3 | Egypt | |||||||
Dec | 9.32 | 6.84 | 6.00 | 3.74 | 9.75 | 6.98 | 5.03 | 4.97 | Italy |
5.4 | 5.4 | Egypt |
The only two large epidemics (those of infective hepatitis) are reflected in the high figures for autumn 1942 and autumn 1944.
* Estimated only.
Campaign | Killed in Action | Died of Wounds | Wounded | Prisoners of War Died of Wounds | Wounded | Total |
Greece | 180 | 50 | 371 | 25 | 225 | 851 |
Crete | 507 | 136 | 1039 | 31 | 496 | 2209 |
Libya, 1941 | 671 | 208 | 1699 | 5 | 201 | 2784 |
Egypt | 587 | 313 | 2414 | 36 | 247 | 3597 |
Alamein-Tripoli | 335 | 123 | 1527 | 1 | 5 | 1991 |
Tunisia | 316 | 71 | 1297 | 2 | 9 | 1695 |
Sangro | 298 | 101 | 1116 | 4 | 16 | 1535 |
Cassino | 340 | 114 | 1823 | 2 | 7 | 2286 |
Florence | 227 | 71 | 896 | 4 | 1198 | |
Rimini | 180 | 44 | 878 | 8 | 1110 | |
Faenza | 141 | 52 | 847 | 1 | 1041 | |
Senio-Trieste | 183 | 59 | 1145 | 1387 | ||
—— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | |
3965 | 1342 | 15,052 | 107 | 1218 | 21,684 |
Killed to Wounded (Omitting Died of Wounds) Including PW | Died of Wounds to Wounded (not PW) | Killed and Died of Wounds to Wounded, Including PW | |
Greece | 1:3 | 1:8 | 2:5 |
Crete | 1:3 | 1:8 | 2:5 |
Libya, 1941 | 1:3 | 1:8 | 1:2 |
Egypt | 1:4 ½ | 1:8 | 1:3 |
Alamein-Tripoli | 1:5 | 1:12 | 1:3 |
Tunisia | 1:5 | 1:12 | 1:3 |
Sangro | 1:5 | 1:12 | 1:3 |
Cassino | 1:5 | 1:12 | 1:4 |
Florence | 1:5 | 1:12 | 1:3 |
Rimini | 1:5 | 1:20 | 1:4 |
Faenza | 1:6 | 1:20 | 1:4 |
Senio-Trieste | 1:6 | 1:20 | 1:5 |
The middle column indicates an improved recovery rate for wounded as war medical science progressed and as lines of evacuation became more favourable. (If prisoners of war are also included, the only changes are that Crete and Libya become 1: 9 instead of 1: 8.)
Analysis of other columns must take account of more complications, but the severity of injury resulting in death (immediate or postponed) seems to have decreased as the balance of power in armour, air force, and artillery swung from the enemy to us.
page 694Rft | Unit | Embarked NZ | DisembarkedME | Offrs | ANS | ORs | WAAC |
Advance Party | 11/12/39 | 7/1/40 | 2 | 2 | |||
1 Ech | 4 Fd Amb | 5/1/40 | 13/2/40 | 10 | 18 | 171 | |
4 Fd Hyg | 5/1/40 | 13/2/40 | 1 | 28 | |||
2 Ech | 5 Fd Amb | 1/5/40 | 3/3/41 | 11 | 171 | ||
1 Gen Hosp | 1/5/40 | 16/11/40 | 21 | 37 | 144 | ||
1 Conv Dep | 1/5/40 | 15/9/40 (ex UK) | 5 | 47 | |||
3 Ech | 6 Fd Amb | 27/8/40 | 26/10/40 | 13 | 170 | ||
2 Gen Hosp | 27/8/40 | 1/10/40 | 18 | 39 | 148 | ||
4th: 1 Sec | 8/11/40 | 16/12/40 | 3 | 6 | 47 | ||
2 Sec | 20/12/40 | 28/1/41 | 16 | 5 | 17 | ||
3 Sec | 3 Gen Hosp | 1/2/41 | 23/3/41 | 19 | 46 | 149 | |
5th | 7/4/41 | 13/5/41 | 5 | 12 | 154 | ||
6th | 27/6/41 | 29/7/41 | 16 | 39 | 225 | ||
Maunganui | 25/7/41 | 25/8/41 | 7 | ||||
7th | 15/9/41 | 19/10/41 | 15 | 18 | 166 | ||
Maunganui | 22/12/41 | 25/1/42 | 8 | 5 | 116 | 196 | |
Maunganui | 5/11/42 | 6/12/42 | 60 | 10 | |||
8th | 12/12/42 | 18/1/43 | 2 | 8 | 49 | ||
9th | 14/5/43 | 12/6/43 | 1 | 5 | 96 | 3 | |
Maunganui | 19/6/43 | 21/7/43 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 17 | |
10th | 22/7/43 | 21/8/43 | 8 | 20 | 120 | ||
Misc 1943, ex hosp ship, etc. | 7 | 13 | 8 | ||||
11th: 1 Sec | 12/1/44 | 26/2/44 | 5 | 8 | 268* | 6 | |
2 Sec | 31/3/44 | 6/5/44 | 7 | 12 | 118 | ||
Oranie | 15/12/43 | 29/2/44 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 28 | |
Maunganui | 24/5/44 | 30/6/44 | 1 | 18 | 9 | ||
12th | 29/6/44 | 5/8/44 | 4 | 12 | 39† | ||
Maunganui | 23/8/44 | 27/9/44 | 7 | 19 | 6 | 28 | |
13th | 28/9/44 | 5/11/44 | 18 | 14 | |||
Maunganui | 6/12/44 | 14/1/45 | 4 | 27 | 61 | ||
Misc 1944, ex hosp ship and air, etc. | 18 | 6 | 10 | 2 | |||
14th | 4/1/45 | 29/1/45 | 4 | 8 | 206 | 28 | |
15th | 20/4/45 | 16/5/45 | 35 | 30 | 201 | 32 | |
—— | —— | —— | —— | ||||
Total | 294 | 452 | 2946 | 428 | |||
—— | —— | —— | —— | ||||
Total | 4120 |
(Additions to medical officers listed are RMOs sailing with combatant units and some MOs recruited in United Kingdom—total approx. 30.)
Offrs | ANS | ORs | WAAC | |
Killed, died | 9 | 2 | 44 | 6 |
Wounded | 11 | 61 | ||
Prisoners of war | 32 | 492 |
* Incl 50 ex-furlough
† Incl 15 ex-furlough
Meningitis (all forms) | 29 |
Pneumonia, labor | 14 |
Septicaemia | 12 |
Cerebral haemorrhage | 7 |
Appendicitis and Peritonitis | 13 |
Poliomyelitis | 8 |
Diphtheria | 4 |
Typhus | 6 |
Dysentery | 8 |
Cancer | 8 |
Heart disease | 17 |
Nephritis | 6 |
Duodenal ulcer | 3 |
Tuberculosis | 4 |
Typhoid | 7 |
Infective hepatitis | 6 |
PUO | 2 |
Anaemia | 5 |
Malaria | 2 |
Acute abdominal | 8 |
Other | 19 |
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188 |
(Deaths from disease in 1 NZEF overseas in the First World War were 1579)