@ books both with covers Also The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine.1922. Viewing welcome The NZEF formed part of the New Zealand and Australian Division during the Gallipoli campaign and this is the record of their experiences. Total battle casualties amounted to 7,197 of whom 2,445 died. List of honours and awards (one VC) and a chronology of events. The NZEF sailed from Wellington on 16th October 1914, in all 351 officers and 7410 other ranks making four infantry battalions, four mounted rifles regiments, an artillery brigade, sappers, signals, medical and other divisional troops. They disembarked in Alexandria on 3rd December and the infantry battalions were attached to the Canal defence force where, in February 1915 they had their first brush with the Turks, repelling an attack on the Canal. In Egypt they combined with Australian troops to form the New Zealand and Australian Division, landing on Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. By the end of the campaign they had suffered 7,197 battle casualties (Medical History of the War ) or almost a complete loss of the original expeditionary force.