Introduction

Since 1972, a significant number of personnel have passed away following their military service for the New Zealand Defence Force in South Vietnam during years from 1964 to 1972.

An official nominal roll was never maintained of personnel who served for New Zealand Defence Force during the Vietnam war. It was by chance a military officer intercepted pay books on their way to destruction. From those books the officer created an unofficial nominal roll listing those who served and with which sub-unit. Some names on the list are repeated within various sub-units where an individual served more than one tour of duty.

A count of all names determined that just over 3200 personnel actually served, given those with two or more tours of duty.

Purpose

The purpose of this site is to list deceased New Zealand Defence Force personnel following their service in South Vietnam in order that a pattern of causation can be determined, such as deaths from cancers.

Of significance in the early 1980's an apparent causation of death was from abnormal health diseases and disorders, especially from cancer types that were uncommon, such as soft tissue sarcoma. At that time the stastical records indicated the USA population norm for that cancer as being 4:100,000. Forty years later, in 2010, the United Kingdom had a population of 62.77 million people, of whom 3300 were reported with soft tissue sarcoma.

Another factor highlighting issues among Vietnam veterans was an apparent disparity of the abnormal health diseases and disorders within that group and those who had served only in Malaysia and Borneo and not Vietnam. Initial root cause analysis by the Korea and Southeast Asia Forces Association indicated that the abnormal health diseases and disorders were NOT evident among personnel who had served in South East Asia but not Vietnam.

The New Zealand Ministry of Health in 2013 indicated the life expectancy at birth was 73.0 years for Maori males and 77.1 years for Maori females; it was 80.3 years for non-Maori males and 83.9 years for non-Maori females.

NOTE: The author has not regularly updated the listings since 2016 due to occupational and health reasons.

The listing is on the basis of:

• Service number
• Last name
• Initials
• Age
• Sub-unit
• Reported cause of death [Causation]
• Year of death
• Other reported medical conditions

The list does include those killed in action during tour of duty in South Vietnam.

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Total served: 000. Total deceased: 69. Percentage deceased: 0%.
Average age: 61 years. [69 less (age unknown 5 + KIA/DOW 0 + accidents 0) -5 = 64]. Gross age 3908. Calculations 3908/64

No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	30718	Birks	A L	2002	60	1 ATF, RNZIR	Heart Attack	NK
002	30654	Cameron	D C G	1991	65	1 ATF, RNZChD	NK	NK
003	37395	Collinson	J D	1993	55	1 ATF, RNZIR	NK	NK
004	329183	Armstrong	A G	1986	53	1 ALSG	NK	NK
005	80698	Byrom	J W	1987	44	1 ALSG, RNZAOC	Cancer	NK
006	208196	Cummins	J R	1998	70	1 ALSG, RNZAMC	Heart Attack	NK
007	34195	Hamilton	A C	1997	66	1 ALSG	NK	NK
008	720096	Hawkins	L R	1996	54	1 ALSG	Acute heart failure	Skin rashes
009	39159	Jobe	J N	1979	36	1 ALSG, RNZCT	NK	NK
010	A722637	Keating	G R	1997	55	1 ALSG, RNZPro Corp	NK	NK
011	33378	Good	L E	2011	82	1 ALSG, RNZAMC	NK	NK
012	305501	Kena	H J	2001	62	1 ALSG, RNZA	NK	NK
013	36259	Marchant	K G	2003	73	1 ALSG, RNZASC	NK	NK
014	205087	Mawson	J W	2001	72	1 ALSG, RNZAC	NK	NK
015	828598	Newnham	M F	1996	56	1 ALSG, RNZAOC	Natural	NK
016	30598	Ross	M J	2003	68	1 ALSG, RNZAOC	NK	NK
017	797120	Skilton	R L	1996	63	1 ALSG	NK	NK
018	38835	Thomason	R C	NK	NK	1 ALSG	NK	NK
019	36245	Tyms	W S	1993	67	1 ALSG, RNZASC	NK	NK
020	33128	Burtt	P J	1994	62	NZ Component, RNZIR	NK	NK
021	71327	Fincham	E J	1975	47	NZ Component	NK	NK
022	41101	Johnstone	N B	1997	52	NZ Component	Cancer	NK
023	206515	McKenzie	A K S	1988	58	NZ Component, RNZIR	NK	NK
024	39166	Parsons	P R	1991	48	NZ Component	Heart Attack	NK
025	42211	Von Rickenbach	C R	1996	49	NZ Component	NK	NK
026	213273	Wicksteed	R K	1993	52	NZ Component, RNZIR	NK	NK
027	33894	Roe	B G	1996	66	Aust Trg, RNZIR	Heart	NK
028	514047	Samuels	T	1975	44	Aust Trg, RNZIR	Cancer	NK
029	E469158	Bourke	P J	2000	59	AFV Unit, RNZPro Corp	NK	NK
030	593929	Tippett	V J	1999	65	5 Tpt Coy, RNZASC	Accident	NK
031	42785	Balance	J MID	1988	42	3 CAV, RAAC
032	39498	Hudson	J N	1989	48	3 CAV	Suddenly
033	33143	Presland	J R	2003	70	NZ Component, RNZIR	NK	NK
034	37821	Calder	D McB	2003	74	1 ALSG	NK	NK
035	411418 -??	Wallace	R W	2001	NK	6 RAR, RAINF	Suicide	NK
036	30864	Clark	K D	2000	56	1 Aust FD	NK	NK
037	36470	Taylor	W	2000	74	1 ALSG, RNZASC	NK	NK
038	784411	Thompson	B T	2005	70	1 ALSG, RNZIR	NK	NK
039	554218	Moana	M M	2006	65	1 ALSG, RNZIR	NK	NK
040	31161	Flowerday	J D	2000	80	1 ALSG	Prostate cancer	NK
041	34890	Baker	D S	2007	73	1 ALSG	NK	NK
042	39947	Stewart	T	2007	66	1 ALSG, RNZE	Asthma attack	NK
043	30809	Jacobson	C F	2007	67	1 ALSG, RNZNC		NK
044	828454	Keeler	A J	2008	68	1 ALSG, RNZAOC	NK	NK
045	42261	Duncan	B M	2009	61	1 ALSG, RNZPro Corp	Cancer	NK
046	374582	Baeyertz	C R M	2009	65	1 ALSG, RNZPro Corp	Cancer	NK
047	38168	Fraser	C M	2009	73	1 ALSG, RNZ Sigs	Cancer	NK
048	213818	Thomson	A W	2009	67	1 ALSG, RNZASC/RNZCT	NK	NK
049	34890	Baker	C M	2009	73	1 ALSG, RNZEME	NK	NK
050	33363	Pepper	R L	2010	85	1 ALSG, RNZEME	NK	NK
051	92840	Katene	B T	2010	76	1 ALSG	NK	NK
052	W34474	Hemana	B T	2011	80	1 ALSG	NK	NK
053	34353	Dixon	H A H	2012	79	1 ALSG	NK	NK
054	41297	Calvey	B. W.	2012	66	1 ALSG	NK	NK
055	38098	Cassidy	R. F.	2012		1 ALSG	NK	NK
056	38708	Brunt	T.W.	2013	79	ALSG		NK
057	36278	Durrant	E. E. L.	2013	79	ALSG		NK
058	B343437	Hellyer	R. E.	2013	76	ALSG		NK
059	39422	Robinson	F. J. G.	2013	NK	ALSG	NK	NK
060	969408	Wallace	J. H.	2014	NK	ALSG	NK	NK
061	38085	McIntyre J.	J. H.	2015	86	ALSG	NK	NK
062	595412	Church	R. J.	2015	79	ALSG	NK	NK
063	39909	Corkin	G. M.	2016	74	RNZAOC	NK	NK
064	38269	Smith	J. H.	2016 ??	NK	RNZASC	NK	NK
065	30789	Stachurski	R. J.	2017	83	RNZCdD	NK	NK
066	30682	Turner	T. N.	2018	79	RNZIR	NK	NK
067	204287	Wilson	J. W.	2016	90	RNZASC	NK	NK
068	708189	Tripp	F.	2013	81	RNZIR
069	969919	Wilson	R. S. E.	2016	82	1 ALSG | NZ Component