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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New Zealand Services Medical Team/RNZAMC

Total served: 000

Total deceased: 42

Percentage deceased: 0.0%

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No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	200511	Ardagh	J W	NK	NK	Svces Med Team	NK	NK
002	77255	Bouchier	N L S	1993	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAF	Heart Attack	NK
003	461883	Brunton	C C	1992	NK	Svces Med Team RNZN	Heart Attack	NK
004	18052	Cameron	C	1990	NK	Svces Med Team	Heart Attack	NK
005	A35213	Cormack	G	1998	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
006	81801	Dauphin	D J	1980	NK	Svces Med Team	Heart Attack	NK
007	81938	Dutson	W J	NK	NK	Svces Med Team	Abdominal cancer	NK
008	U109116	Fitzgerald	E J	1998	NK	Svces Med Team RNZN	Cancer	NK
009	83680	Grant	R G	1999	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
010	30693	Green	A	NK	NK	Svces Med Team	NK	NK
011	106324	Keeley	P E	1980	NK	Svces Med Team RNZN	NK	NK
012	34712	Maitland	R S	2003	NK	Svces Med Team RNZA	Heart Attack	NK
013	202915	Meldrum	W D	NK	NK	Svces Med Team	NK	NK
014	72574	Norris	A T	1992	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAF	NK	NK
015	71507	Palmer	R H	1989	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
016	134355	Pearl	M	1980	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	Drowned	NK
017	211377	Quinn	P	NK	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
018	K207469	Rea	J S	NK	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
019	18843	Shannon	J L	1994	NK	Svces Med Team RNZN	Heart Attack	NK
020	364186	Snelling	O D	1993	NK	Svces Med Team	NK	NK
021	338473	Stewart	D	NK	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
022	214757	Sullivan	J P M	2001	NK	Svces Med Team	NK	NK
023	38217	Vesey	T F	1970	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
024	80166	WATT	G S	1970	NK	Svces Med Team RNZAF	KILLED IN ACTION	NK
025	215403	Cowper	L E	1966	NK	Civilian Surg Team RNZNC	Died in-country	NK
026	215219	McLeod	J A	1988	50	Svces Med Team	Cancer	NK
027	78644	Dampier	G A	1988	80	Svces Med Team RNZAF	NK	NK
028	30870	McKenzie	E R	2005	NK	Svces Med Team NZAMC	NK	NK
029	344243	Sluce	S D	2006	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAF	NK	NK
030	215243	Moroney	R T	2006	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAM	NK	NK
031	645604	McNaughton	R E	2006	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAF	NK	NK
032	30959	Scott	R D	2006	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
033	816573	Earl	A J	2006	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
034	207418	Moodie	J.F.; M.B.E. M.C. E.D. & Bar	2007	NK	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC 1965	NK	NK
035	338834	Helm	B F	2005	69	1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
036	34271	Callaway	P H	2005		1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
037	888048	Pluck	A T	2010		1 NZ Svces Med Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
038	33378	Good	L E	2011		1 ALSG RNZAMC	NK	NK
039	Q326959	Treanor	K.R.	2011		NZ Services Medical Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
040	102193	Watson	M. H.	2012		NZ Services Medical Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
041	36447	Braybrooke QSO, JP[Retd]	G. B.	2013		NZ Services Medical Team RNZAMC	NK	NK
042	80427	McColgan	F. E.	2013	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK