* ATF Logistic Support Group
* Artillery
* Anzac Bn's Comd & Support
* Special Air Service
*
NZ Army Training Team
* Engineers
* Armoured
* Army Service Corp
* NZ Medical Services Team
* NEWZAD
* RNZN
* RNZAF
* HQ NZ V Force Saigon
* Visitor to Sth Vietnam
Advising of deceased vet
Abbreviation NK = Not Known
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.
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: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 |
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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 |