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AUSTRALIAN WAR CASUALTIES
All conflicts
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| Australian details supplied by Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| Numbers enlisted or engaged | Deaths | Wounded | P o Ws |
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New Zealand War/s 1860-61 (official Australian involvement) |
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| Crew of HMVS Victoria served 1860-61 (several thousand Australians enlisted in the New Zealand Waikato regiments 1863-69) | Accurate figures not available | ||
 Sudan
1885 |
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| 770 men joined the New South Wales contingent to the Sudan | 9 died from all causes | 3 | - |
| South
Africa (Boer War)1899-1902 |
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| 16,000 Australians joined colonial and Commonwealth contingents to serve in South Africa | 251 killed in action or died of wounds, 267 died of illness, total 518 dead | 538 | 100 |
| Boxer
rebellion 1900-01 |
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| 560 men, from New south Wales, South Australia and Victoria served in colonial naval contingents | 6 died from all causes | Accurate figures not available | - |
| First
World War1914-18 |
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| 417,000 men enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (including Australian Flying Corps) 330,000 served overseas (no figures for the Royal Australian Navy) | 60,000 from all causes (AIF only) | 155,000 (AIF only) |
4,044 (397 died while captive) |
| Second
World War 1939-45 |
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| 691,000 men and 35,800 women enlisted in the Australian Military forces (AIF and Militia), 45,000 men and 3,100 women enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy, 189,000 men and 27,000 women enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force | 35,000 deaths from all causes (all services) | 66,553 (all services) |
7,289 in the war against Germany (of whom 234 died while captive), 22,376 in the war against Japan (of whom 8,031 died while captive) |
| Korean
war 1950-53 |
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| 10,657 army personnel engaged, 4,507 navy personnel engaged (no figures for air force) | 339 deaths from all causes (all services) | 1,216 (all services) |
29 (1 died while captive) |
| Malayan
emergency 1950-60
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| 7,000 army personnel engaged (no figures for other services) | 36 deaths from all causes (all services) | 20 | - |
| Indonesian
confrontation 1963-66
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| 3,500 army personnel (no figures for other services) | 15 deaths from all causes (all services) | 9 | - |
| Vietnam
war 1962-72 |
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| 42,700 army personnel engaged, 2,858 navy personnel engaged, 4,443 air force personnel engaged | 496 deaths from all causes (all services) | 2,398 (all services) | |
| Note: Casualty figures differ between sources due to variations in recording methods, criteria for classification etc; the figures for deaths, wounded and prisoners-of-war should therefore be regarded as approximate only. |
| The figures below refer to the Viet Nam War. Although American I suspect that the Australian evidence would be similar. I have not been able to source Aussie figures |
| Body part where wound inflicted | Percentage of wounds inflicted |
Percentage of soldiers who died of these wounds |
| Arm | 14% | 1% |
| Head | 20% | 39% |
| Chest | 10% | 19% |
| Groin/stomach | 8% | 18% |
| Leg | 29% | 7% |
| Multiple | 19% | 16% |
| How wounds inflicted | Percentage of wounds | Percentage of combat deaths or DOW |
| Small arms | 16% | 51% |
| Booby traps | 15% | 11% |
| Shrapnel | 65% | 36% |
| Other | 4% | 2% |
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New Zealand Service Personnel Killed On Operational Service |
| South African (Boer) War (1899-1902) | 230 | |
| First World War (1914-1918) | 18,166 | |
| Second World War (1939-1945) | 11,625 | |
| Korean War (1950-1953) | 43 | |
| Malaya/Malaysia (1948-1966 | 20 | |
| Vietnam War (1964-1972) | 40 | |
| Peacekeeping operations (1990-2002) | 6 | |
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TOTAL... |
30,360 |
