<sod>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 (World War I)|Western Front]]. 16,697 New Zealanders were [[Killed in action|killed]] and 41,317 were [[Wounded in action|wounded]] during the war – a 58 percent [[Casualty (person)|casualty rate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/41773/dunedin-family039s-pride-soldier-honoured|title=Dunedin family's pride as soldier honoured|last=Price|first=Mark|date=3 February 2009|publisher=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=2009-02-02}}</ref> 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.They were the best trooping country in the world,i don't know why the white people bot's it for.<eod>
<sod>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 (World War I)|Western Front]]. 16,697 New Zealanders were [[Killed in action|killed]] and 41,317 were [[Wounded in action|wounded]] during the war – a 58 percent [[Casualty (person)|casualty rate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/41773/dunedin-family039s-pride-soldier-honoured|title=Dunedin family's pride as soldier honoured|last=Price|first=Mark|date=3 February 2009|publisher=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=2009-02-02}}</ref> 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.<eod>