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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NEWZAD

Total served: 000

Total deceased: 15

Percentage deceased: 0.0%

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No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	36706	Atherton	J D	971	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
002	31345	Brighouse	B W	993	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
003	33022	Cole	R W	981	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
004	37166	Duncan	B	998	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	NK	NK
005	708601	Ferguson	R W	977	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
006	40446	Fitzgerald	K W	989	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
007	37140	Flavell	F R	997	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	NK	NK
008	34938	Hudson	W H	998	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	NK	NK
009	38470	Mita	R	NK	NK	NEWZAD	NK	NK
010	37178	Raumati	Te K	996	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	NK	NK
011	37932	Copyn	R F	2003	63	NEWZAD, RNZEME	Cancer	NK
012	920125	Lamb	W H	2003	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	Stroke	Pancreatic Cancer
013	Q33065	Grieve	G D	2003	NK	NEWZAD, RNZE	Cancer	NK
014	816065	Mann	O E	2012	NK	Attached US Forces	NK	NK
15	32215	Hobman	E J	2013	NK	RNZE	NK	NK