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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Total served: 000

Total deceased: 25

Percentage deceased: 0.0%

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No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	30140	Ainge	R W	NK	NK	Visitor	Cancer	NK
002	30426	Bath	F B	1992	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
003	568083	Bell	D A	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
004	30254	Bell	P H	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
005	205128	Bennett	I B	1994	NK	Visitor	Cancer	NK
006	71088	Bridge	K D	1986	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
007	31357	Brooke	J	NK	NK	Visitor	Brain Tumour	NK
008	37361	Bulmer	J E	1987	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
009	3555	Carr	L G	1990	NK	Visitor, RNZN	NK	NK
010	73252	Elliott	W	1996	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
011	378672	Fitness	L D	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
012	72691	Gable	D A	1996	NK	Visitor, RNZAF	NK	NK
013	82609	Garmonsway	M B	1988	NK	Visitor, RNZIR	NK	NK
014	P34168	Macaskill	K I	1994	NK	Visitor, RNZIR	NK	NK
015	206376	Mallasch	T J	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
016	NK	McKinnon	W S	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
017	30251	Poananga	B M	1995	NK	Visitor, RNZIR	Alziehmers	NK
018	70030	Quill	S G	1984	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
019	34447	Stott	S	1990	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
020	30011	Thornton	L W	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
021	359576	Wallace	G A C	1993	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
022	30099	Webb	R J	NK	NK	Visitor	NK	NK
023	481879	Lucas	N A	2007	NK	Visitor, RNZIR	NK	NK
24	31491	Williams	D. F. MBE	2017	88	RNZIR	NK	NK
25	543478	Hooper	C. W.	2017	72	RNZIR	NK	NK