APPENDIX 1: CASUALTIES

The Coonamble sheds will miss you when they muster after war, when those who donned the khaki shear again.

There’ll be no Harry Fagan to push along the score, he is sleeping where the Markham grows wild cane.     Bert Beros1

New Britain (January–February 1942)2

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Milne Bay (25 August–7 September 1942)4

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Kokoda Trail (July–November 1942)5

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Papuan Beachheads
Gona (14 November 1942–4 January 1943)6

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Buna (24 November 1942–7 January 1943)7

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Sanananda (14 November 1942–28 January 1943)9

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Wau (23 May 1942–21 April 1943)11

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Salamaua (22 April–13 September 1943)13

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Lae (4–16 September 1943) 15

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Markham and Ramu Valleys (18 September 1943–8 April 1944)19

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Huon Peninsula (22 September 1943–20 January 1944)21

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Bougainville (October 1944–August 1945)23

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New Britain (October 1944–July 1945)24

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Aitape–Wewak (October 1944–August 1945)25
 

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Royal Australian Air Force
(War against Japan: December 1941–August 1945)26

KIA WIA POWs
2020 886 417

Royal Australian Navy (War against Japan: December 1941–August 1945)27
Only vessels with RAN losses over 5 recorded.

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Japanese

Where available, figures for individual campaigns differ markedly between sources and are thus unreliable. Total Japanese deaths in New Guinea were approximately 110,000. 28