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This graph shows that the vast majority of New Zealand Army POWs (6897) were captured between April 1941 and September 1942. Of these 1856 were captured in Greece, 2180 in Crete and the remainder in the Western Desert. Approximately a fifth of these were wounded or died in POW camps during this period.
Credit
From Wynne Mason, W. Prisoners of War. Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45 (War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1954)
