Military history of Australia
Military statistics
Table:
Conflict

Date

Number enlisted

Killed

Wounded

Prisoners of war

Notes

New Zealand
1860–61
Crew of HMVS Victoria
2,500 in Waikato Regiments
1
<20
Nil
Unknown
Nil
[37]

Sudan
1885
770 in NSW Contingent
9
3
Nil
[37]

South Africa
1899–1902
16,463 in Colonial and Commonwealth contingents
589
538
100
[37]

China
1900–01
560 in NSW, SA and VIC colonial naval contingents
6
Unknown
Nil
[37]

First World War
1914–18
416,809 enlisted in AIF (includes AFC)
324,000 AIF members served overseas
9,000 in RAN
Total: 425,809
61,511
155,000
4,044
(397 died in captivity)
[37]

Russian Civil War
1918–19
100–150 in NREF and NRRF
48 in Dunsterforce
Crew of HMAS Swan
10
40
Nil
[110]

Second World War
1939–45
727,200 in 2nd AIF and Militia
48,900 in RAN
216,900 in RAAF
Total: 993,000
39,761
66,553
8,184 (against Germany and Italy)
22,376 (against Japan)
(8,031 died in captivity)
Total: 30,560
[37]

Post-war mine clearance
(Northern Queensland coast and New Guinea)
1947–50

4

[262]

Japan
(British Commonwealth Occupation Force)
1947–1952
16,000
3

[262][263]

Papua New Guinea
1947–1975

13

[262]

Middle East
(UNTSO)
1948–present

1

[262]

Berlin Airlift
1948–1949

1

[262]

Malayan Emergency
1948–60
7,000 in Army
39
20
Nil
[37]

Kashmir
1948–1985

1

[262]

Korean War
1950–53
10,657 in Army
4,507 in RAN
2,000 in RAAF
Total: 17,164
340
1,216
29
(1 died in captivity)
[37]

Malta
1952–1955

3

[262]

Korea
(Post-armistice)
1953–1957

16

[37]

South-East Asia
(SEATO)
1955–1975

6

[262]

Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation
1962–66
3,500 in Army
16
9
Nil
[37]

Malay Peninsula
1964–1966

2

[262]

Vietnam War
1962–73
42,700 in Army
2,825 in RAN
4,443 in RAAF
Total: 49,968
521
2,398
Nil
[37]

Thailand
1965–1968

2

[262]

Irian Jaya
(Operation Cenderawasih)
1976–1981

1

[262]

Gulf War
1991
750
Nil
Nil
Nil
[37]

Western Sahara
(MINURSO)
1991–1994

1

[37]

Somalia
1992–94
1,480
1

Nil
[262]

Bougainville
1997–2003
3,500
1

[262]

East Timor
1999–2013
> 40,000
4

Nil
[37][218][264]

Afghanistan
2001–present
> 26,000
41
256
Nil
[233][237][265]

Iraq
2003–11
17,000
3
27
Nil
[37]

Solomon Islands
2003–2013
7,270
1

[262][266]

Fiji
2006

2

[262]

Total
~ 102,930
~ 226,060
~ 34,733

Note: In addition, approximately another 3,100 Australians died in various conflicts, serving in either British or other Commonwealth or Allied forces, or the Merchant Navy, or were civilians working with philanthropic organisations, official war correspondents, photographers, or artists.[267]

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