Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
395 — Headquarters 3rd Division to Army Headquarters (Wellington)
395
Headquarters 3rd Division to Army Headquarters (Wellington)
All Japanese resistance in Vella Lavella eliminated. Total casualties in these operations only are:
Officers | Other Ranks | |
Killed in action | 3 | 26 |
Wounded | 2 | 30 |
Missing | 1 |
The 14th Brigade Group in its first engagement acquitted itself splendidly.1
1 Later figures give the brigade's casualties as 3 officers, 28 other ranks killed, 1 officer died of wounds, 1 officer and 31 other ranks wounded.