100 years since the #Armistice 11/11/18.
308,000 men of the AIF served in war.
208,000 admissions to hospital for wounding.
750,000 admissions in total.
4 out of 5 were damaged or disabled in some way.
62,300 died, 550 by suicide.
8,000 died a premature death after the war.
Of those Australian soldiers who survived, more than half of them were discharged medically unfit.
As a proportion of its fighting force of men who were actually exposed to a theatre of war, Australia’s army suffered more deaths, more hospitalisations for wounding and more hospitalisations for illness and injury than the armies of Britain, Germany, France, Canada or the United States.
The greatest devastation of a generation in our history.
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