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Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III

395 — Headquarters 3rd Division to Army Headquarters (Wellington)

page 412

395
Headquarters 3rd Division to Army Headquarters (Wellington)

9 October 1943

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.