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

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    Deceased New Zealand Vietnam veteran details.
Total served: 000 Total deceased: 48 Percentage deceased: 0.0%  Back to Index
No. Service No. Last Name Init's Year Age Sub-unit Causation Other Conditions
001 30718 Birks A L 2002 NK 1 ATF
RNZIR
Heart Attack NK
002 30654 Cameron D C G 1991 NK 1 ATF,
RNZChD
NK NK
003 37395 Collinson J D 1993 NK 1 ATF,
RNZIR
NK NK
004 329183 Armstrong A G 1986 NK 1 ALSG NK NK
005 80698 Byrom J W 1987 NK 1 ALSG
RNZAOC
Cancer NK
006 A208196 Cummins J R 1998 NK 1 ALSG
RNZAMC
Heart Attack NK
007 T34195 Hamilton A C 1997 NK 1 ALSG NK NK
008 N720096 Hawkins L R 1996 52 1 ALSG Acute heart failure Skin rashes
009 39159 Jobe J N 1979 NK 1 ALSG
RNZCT
Natural NK
010 A722637 Keating G R 1997 NK 1 ALSG
RNZPro
NK NK
011 33378 Keinzley P T NK NK 1 ALSG
RNZCT
NK NK
012 305501 Kena H J 2001 NK 1 ALSG
RNZA
NK NK
013 36259 Marchant K G 2003 NK 1 ALSG
RNZASC
NK NK
014 205087 Mawson J W 2001 NK 1 ALSG
RNZAC
NK NK
015 A828598 Newnham M F 1996 NK 1 ALSG
RNZAOC
Natural NK
016 30598 Ross M J 2003 NK 1 ALSG
RNZAOC
NK NK
017 797120 Skilton R L 1996 NK 1 ALSG NK NK
018 38835 Thomason R C NK NK 1 ALSG NK NK
019 W36245 Tyms W S 1993 NK 1 ALSG
RNZASC
NK NK
020 33128 Burtt P J 1984 NK NZ Component
RNZIR
NK NK
021 71327 Fincham E J 1975 NK NZ Component NK NK
022 41101 Johnstone N B 1997 NK NZ Component Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma NK
023 206515 McKenzie A K S 1988 NK NZ Component
RNZIR
NK NK
024 39166 Parsons P R 1991 NK NZ Component Heart Attack NK
025 G42211 Von Rickenbach C R 1996 NK NZ Component NK NK
026 T213273 Wicksteed R K 1993 NK NZ Component
RNZIR
NK NK
027 33894 Roe B G 1996 NK Aust Trg
RNZIR
Heart NK
028 514047 Samuels T 1975 NK Aust TRG
RNZIR
Cancer NK
029 E469158 Bourke P J 2000 NK AFV Unit
RNZPro
NK NK
030 5593929 Tippett V J 1999 NK 5 Tpt Coy
RNZASC
Accident NK
031 42785 Balance J 1988 NK 3 CAV
RAAC
032 H39498 Hudson JJ N 1989 NK 3 CAV Suddenly
033 A33143 Presland J R 2003 70 NZ Component NK NK
034 37821 Calder D McB 2003 NK 1 ALSG NK NK
035 411418 Wallace R W 2001 NK 6 RAR, RAINF Suicide NK
036 30864 MacDonald K D 2000 NK 1 Aust FD NK NK
037 31161 Flowerday J D 2000 79 1 ALSG Heart failure Prostate cancer
038 78541 Thompson B T 2006 NK 1 ALSG, RNZIR NK NK
039 304704 Catterick L J 2007 NK 1 ALSG, RNZ Prov Corp Cancer NK
040 74972 McKenzie A.S. A.S. 2007 NK 1 ATF, RNZ Chaplains Dept NK
041 40551 Finlay P.P. 2008 79 NZ Component, RNZIR NK
042 212120 Diffin D. 2008 NZ Component, RNZIR NK
043 36419 Dawe D. A. 2009 NL NZ Component, RNZIR NK
044 30688 Aldridge T. A., CBE 2011 NK NZ Component, RNZIR NL NK
45 969919 Wilson R. S. E. 2016 82 RNZIR NK NK
046 623736 Whiting L. K. 2016 NK NZ Component, RNZIR NK NK
047 P655260 Rasmussen R. L. G. 2015 NK NZ Component, RNZIR NK NK
48 35341 Dixon J. A. <2018 83 1 ATF, RNZIR NK NK