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.

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Total served: 000

Total deceased: 31

Percentage deceased: 0.0%

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Updated 3 June 2019

No.	Service No.	Last Name	Init's	Year	Age	Sub-unit	Causation	Other Conditions
001	72309	Bradbury	M R	1978	NK	41 Sqn,RNZAF	NK	NK
002	71189	Densem	D R	1990	NK	41 Sqn,RNZAF	NK	NK
003	74191	Keatley	E B	1993	NK	41 Sqn,RNZAF	NK	NK
004	81625	Abel	M J	NK	NK	RNZAF att USAF	NK	NK
005	71577	Charlton	J R	1993	NK	RNZAF	Cancer	NK
006	75086	Karauria	J W	1970	NK	RNZAF	Plane Accident	NK
007	80863	Mills	A R	1990	NK	RNZAF att 9 Sqn RAAF	NK	NK
008	K338247	Oldfield	G A	2000	NK	RNZAF att 9 Sqn RAAF	Heart Attack	NK
009	76055	Paterson	D I	1980	NK	RNZAF att 9 Sqn RAAF	NK	NK
010	78322	Turner	R J P	2001	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK
011	921456	Williams	R	2004	NK	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
012	76826	Ramsay	W J	2004	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK
013	E81608	Davies	T	2005	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK
014	G78022	Hill	A E, BEM	2006	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK
015	73889	Gourley	R K	2007	NK	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
016	81360	Denniston	R J	2007	NK	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
017	82450	Harford	K D	2007	NK	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
018	81903	Pascoe	A B	2007	NK	40 Sqn, RNZAF	Cancer of pancreas	Testicle cancer
019	77793	Thurston	B R	2009	71	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
020	33180	Young	L G	2010	NK	41 Sqn, RNZAF	NK	NK
021	75756	Miller	A P	2010	NK	RNZAF	NK	NK
022	80569	Ewing	R L	2012	68	RNZAF att USAF	NK	NK
023	81959	Donnelly	B W	2013		RNZAF att USAF	NK	NK
024	73603	McAsey	A B	2013		RNZAF	NK	NK
025	594353	Derby	G C	2013		RNZAF att 9 Sqn RAAF	NK	NK
026	457833	Hutchins	I A	2014		RNZAF	NK	NK
027	G83335	Senn	B H	2014	NK	RNZAF att 9 Sqn RAAF	Spinal cance	NK
028	82973	FRANCIS	B. R.	2016	66	RNZAF	NK	NK
029	82900	Hopper	M. C.	2016	89	RNZAF	NK	NK
030	816026	Cranfield	W. J.	2017	84	41 Sqn RNZAF	NK	NK
031	80420	Carey	C. W. CNZM AFC	2019	76	RNZAF	NK	NK