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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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Total served: 000 Total deceased: 15 Percentage deceased: 0.0%  Back to Index
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