Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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Summary

In surgery, many important advances had been made in the year since the pre-Alamein battles, and surgeons had achieved a high degree of efficiency in the conditions peculiar to war. The low death rate among wounded who reached a medical unit was adequate testimony to this.

Admissions to Field Ambulances, 1943

	Jan		Feb		Mar		Apr		May		Total
	Sick	BC	Sick	BC	Sick	BC	Sick	BC	Sick	BC	Sick	BC
4 Fd Amb
NZ	15	21	409	6	155	352	309	566	74	15	962	960
Others	17	87	40	1	46	177	101	312	10	7	214	584
PW		10				131		38				179
5 Fd Amb
NZ	127	33	16		189	83	115	420	69	52	516	588
Others	73	71	1		42	51		72	3	17	119	211
PW						15		27				42
6 Fd Amb
NZ	130	30			32	249	26	50	39	17	227	346
Others	247	212			20	172	9	30	5	5	281	419
PW		4				79	3	18		1	3	102
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	609	468	466	7	484	1309	563	1533	200	114	2322	3431

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The New Zealand Division's casualties in Tunisia, March–May 1943, were:

Sick	1008
Battle casualties	1804

Admissions, etc., 1 NZ CCS

Location	Period	Sick	BC	Total	RTU	Deaths	Amputations
Sirte	4–12 Jan	331	154	485	26	4	4
Tamet	14–31 Jan	468	287	755	100	14	1
Tamet	1–8 Feb	60	12	72	89	1
Zuara	11–26 Feb	305	142	447	75		1
Medenine	27–28 Feb	54	51	105
Medenine	1–30 Mar	561	975	1536	122	19	16
Teboulbou	31 Mar	17	40	57	2
Teboulbou	1–8 Apr	37	523	560		16	7
El Djem	13–30 Apr	666	1037	1703	92	10	4
Sidi Bou Ali	1–23 May	870	755	1625	41	13	12
		——	——	——	——	——	——
		3369	3976	7345	547	77	45
		——	——	——	——	——	——

New Zealand Casualties, Tunisia, 20 March–13 May 1943

Killed in Action	304
Died of Wounds	64
Wounded	1221
Prisoners of War	31