<P> The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914 -- 18 , excluding those in British and other Dominion forces , was 100,444 , from a population of just over a million . Forty - two percent of men of military age served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force , fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign and on the Western Front . 16,697 New Zealanders were killed and 41,317 were wounded during the war -- a 58 percent casualty rate . Approximately a further thousand men died within five years of the war 's end , as a result of injuries sustained , and 507 died while training in New Zealand between 1914 and 1918 . </P>
<P> The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914 -- 18 , excluding those in British and other Dominion forces , was 100,444 , from a population of just over a million . Forty - two percent of men of military age served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force , fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign and on the Western Front . 16,697 New Zealanders were killed and 41,317 were wounded during the war -- a 58 percent casualty rate . Approximately a further thousand men died within five years of the war 's end , as a result of injuries sustained , and 507 died while training in New Zealand between 1914 and 1918 . </P>
how many new zealand soldiers died in ww1
how many new zealand soldiers died in ww1
16,697
16,697