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A rapidly diminishing army
Western Mail, Thursday, 21 November 1929, p. 2.
A rapidly diminishing army
The A.I.F. is a rapidly diminishing army. About 25,000 pensioners have died since the Armistice, and it is estimated that at least 15,000 have died from non war causes who were not on the books of the Repatriation Department. The total death figures, 100,000, represent nearly one in every three Australians who served abroad. Add to them the seventy-five thousand and odd ex-soldiers who are receiving pensions, and we find that almost half the A.I.F. is dead or disabled.