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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NZ Headquarters V Force

Total served: 000 Total deceased: 56 Percentage deceased: 0.0%

Updated 3 January 2019

No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	34119	Bingham	J	1986	NK	HQ V Force, RNZE	NK	NK
002	209150	Brand	J C	NK	NK	HQ V Force, RNZA		Cancer	NK
003	38477	Brown	B R	NK	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
004	206660	Brown	J C	2000	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAC	Natural	NK
005	330966	Burgess	R B	1992	NK	HQ V Force, RNZASC	NK	NK
006	38011	Cain	J D	1989	NK	HQ V Force, RNZEME	Heart Attack	NK
007	T209133	Carter	J W	1995	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Cancer	NK
008	C593448	Clarke	I W	1991	NK	HQ V Force, RNZE	NK	NK
009	338682	Corcoran	P J P	1998	NK	HQ V Force, RNZSigs	NK	NK
010	39788	Denham	J C	NK	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
011	675217	Desmond	J D	NK	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
012	30054	Foley	W C	1989	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAC	NK	NK
013	645140	GRIGG	G R	1965	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAMC	KILLED IN ACTION	NK
014	32094	Hancox	J E	2002	NK	HQ V Force, RNZA	NK	NK
015	S331929	Harlick	D B	1993	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
016	K39983	Harvey	G R	1999	NK	HQ V Force, RNZASC	Cancer		NK
017	42441	Hockey	R G	2000	NK	HQ V Force, RNZASC	Cancer	NK
018	41494	Jones	B K	1996	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
019	38968	Kareko	P P P	1995	NK	HQ V Force, RNZPro	Heart Attack	NK
020	E31169	Keys	B	2001	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
021	10135	Lamb	A R	1994	NK	HQ V Force	Cancer	NK
022	L75289	Lindsay	C A	1990	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
023	37171	Lynch	K W	1992	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Heart Attack	NK
024	37055	Lynch	M P	NK	NK	HQ V Force, NZAPC	Heart Attack	NK
025	38216	Mowatt	W	1994	NK	HQ V Force, RNZSigs	Heart Attack	NK
026	36740	Pankhurst	R	1994	NK	HQ V Force, NZAPC	NK	NK
027	372833	Pearson	H F	1992	NK	HQ V Force, RNZASC	Cancer	NK
028	30210	Petersen	H W	1984	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
029	784658	Petterson	V C	1970	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
030	40976	Rayner	J F	2000	NK	HQ V Force	Cancer	NK
031	38518	Smart	G S	1989	NK	HQ V Force, RNZEME	NK	NK
032	30221	Smith	R H	1999	NK	HQ V Force	NK	NK
033	39677	Tutauha	B	1996	NK	HQ V Force, RNZA	NK	NK
034	36468	Weir	A	NK	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Heart Attack	NK
035	31181	Rendel	J S	2003		NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
036	38115	Sloan	G	2001	69	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Natural	NK
037	44045	Tako	W R	2003		NK	HQ V Force, RNZASC	Suddenly	NK
038	38548	Earsman	P W	2004		63	110 Sig Sqn RASigs (att), RNZSigs	Pancreatic Cancer	NK
039	30250	Brown	V N	2004		NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	MV Accident	Motor Vehicle
040	37389	Humphreys	T H	2004	KN	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
041	J213931	Rowlands	J	2006	KN	HQ V Force, RNZEME	NK	NK
042	30650	Meldrum	B	2006	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAC	NK	NK
043	P40010	Henderson	R J	2008	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAC	NK	NK
044	208515	Madden	J R	2008	79	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
045	897511	Baker	A R	2008	76	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
046	36348	Easton	P A	2009	79	HQ V Force, RNZAC	NK	NK
047	920499	Stuart	A W	2009	NK	HQ V Force, RNZAMC	NK	NK
048	34966	Patrick	H G	2010	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Cancer	NK
049	897511	Baker	A. R.	2008	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK	NK
050	P42563	Roulston	C. W.	2013	NK	HQ V Force, RNZIR	NK
051	H208249	Sumner	P. R.	2014	84	HQ V Force, RNZIR	Suddenly
052	U645605	MORRIS	D. J.	2016	81	RNZIR	Long illness	NK
053	551418	Singe	M. R.	2016	NK	RNZAMC	NK	NK
054	11405	Hornbrook	G. R.	2016	88	RNZN	Age
055	542272	Irving/td>	I. G.	2017	74	RNZIR	NK	NK
56	42164	Sears	M. J.	2017	70	RNZIR	NK	NK
057	31084	Russell	H.	2018	89	RNZA	NK	NK