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 the issues evident among Vietnam veterans was a disparity of the abnormal health diseases and disorders within that group and those who had served only in Malaysia and Borneo and not Vietnam. The types of abnormal health diseasea and disorders were not being reported or recorded as predominant for the latter group, this remains the case in 2016.

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.

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 Army Training Team Vietnam [NZATTV]

Total served: 0. Total deceased: 30. Percentage deceased: 0%.
Average age: 70 years. [30 less (age unknown 2 + KIA/DOW 0 + accidents 1) = 28] . Gross age 1996 less 42. Calculations 1954/28

No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	36489	Brassey	D J	2002	63	1 NZATTV, RNZEME	NK	NK
002	535184	Edwards	M H	1997	65	1 NZATTV, RNZAC	NK	NK
003	34686	Hepi	L Te T	1999	67	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	NK	NK
004	206358	Horsfall	G A	NK	NK	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	NK	NK
005	300307	Howard	C H	2001	69	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	NK	NK
006	37869	Kiwi	A R	1982	42	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	Accident	NK
007	K38166	Langley	E A	1996	65	1 NZATTV, RNZAC	Heart Attack	NK
008	300080	McDonald	D W	2001	70	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	Heart Attack	NK
009	914216	McKenzie	R F	1980	47	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	Emphysema	NK
010	535610	Riri	T	2002	69	1 NZATTV	NK	NK
011	38036	Scott	T C R		69	1 NZATTV, RNZIR	Heart Attack	NK
012	462172>	Te Amo	P B	NK	NK	1 NZATTV	NK	NK
013	38142	Beaumont	E	1997	62	2 NZATTV	NK	NK
014	710210	Daniell	J G	1996	65	2 NZATTV	NK	NK
015	898707	Watson	R K	2005	67	2 NZATTV	Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm	Chronic renal failure
016	709565	Baird	J A	2007	74	Att AATTV	Cancer
017	37200	Caskey	I C	2007	69	AATTV	Cancer
018	34268	Jamieson	N C MM	2009	76	AATTV	Cancer
019	35067	Shuker	L G	2010	78	2NZATTV
020	39157	Hall	G J	2011	69	AATTV attached exRNZIR
021	37557	Lichwark	B N	2013	74	NZATTV	NK	NK
022	33838	Morrison	D	2016	92	AATTV	NK	NK
023	538024	MacFarlane	T. D.	2016	79	RNZAC	NK	NK
024	38219	Cunningham	M. A.	2015	76	NZSAS-2NZATTV	NK	NK
025	32225	Robinson	B A	2015	84	RNZAC	NK	NK
026	37673	Robinson	L R	2016	77	RNZAC	NK	NK
027	40575	Scott	R. L.	2016	70	RNZIR	Suddenly	NK
028	303887	Kiwikiwi	R. W.	2016	80	RNZIR 2NZATTV	NK	NK
029	37261	Kearney	W. A.	2016	78	RNZE 1NZATTV	NK	NK
030	383387	Tomlin	G. C.	2018	77	RNZIR 1NZATTV	NK	NK
031	31188	Martin	B. P.	2017	88	RNZIR	UK	UK