Editing Battle of Monte Cassino (section)

===Aftermath===
[[File:The Battle of Cassino, January-may 1944 NA13363.jpg|thumb|left|Signallers of the 6th Battalion, [[Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment]], use a radio in a dugout on Monastery Hill.]]

The next three days were spent stabilising the front, extracting the isolated Gurkhas from Hangman's Hill, and the detachment from the New Zealand 24th Battalion, which had held Point 202 in similar isolation. The Allied line was reorganised, with the exhausted 4th Indian Division and 2nd New Zealand Division withdrawn and replaced, respectively, in the mountains by the British 78th Division and in the town by the [[1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|British 1st Guards Brigade]]. The New Zealand Corps headquarters was dissolved on 26 March and control was assumed by the British XIII Corps.<ref>Molony, Vol. V, p. 802.</ref> In their time on the Cassino front line, the 4th Indian Division had lost 3,000 men and the 2nd New Zealand Division 1,600 men killed, missing, or wounded.<ref>{{harvnb|Majdalany|1957|p=194}}</ref>

The German defenders too had paid a heavy price. The German XIV Corps War Diary for 23 March noted that the battalions in the front line had strengths varying between 40 and 120 men.<ref>E.D. Smith, p. 158</ref>