W3 Company Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment

link to W3 remembrance pageW3 Company RNZIR New Zealand Army was on active service
in South Vietnam from 14 November 1969 to 10 November 1970

Welcome..! Haere mai..!  

This official veterans website offers the story of a New Zealand rifle company sent to South Vietnam in November 1969 as part of the New Zealand armed forces contingent to fight alongside Australian and other Free World forces, three of the Company died on duty.  Service and personal stories and photos of the Company, and family stories, are online.  The website is offered as a resource for people researching the New Zealand involvement in the Vietnam war, as well as a means of maintaining links with W3 veterans and their families.  To meet the latter goal the website offers email addresses of veterans & their next of kin, and welfare assistance where possible.  Personal stories and photographs are still sought from the veterans and their families, and news of interest to Company members is always welcome, send contributions here.

Pte David McLeod 2Pl W3 Coy, WIA 30 January 1970

Pte David Wright 2Pl W3 Coy, WIA 30 January 1970

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last updated
6 February 2010
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"New Zealanders have written themselves
into a special place in our history books,
many of them for deeds of exceptional
bravery and sacrifice, but most of them
 for simply giving their all in duty, in courage, and in dogged determination to fight for peace and freedom from tyranny."

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 
Colonel-in-Chief
Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, 2006

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this website is dedicated to all the New Zealand infantry & those from other Corps who served in the Vietnam conflict - "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" - Shakepeare

 

The role of the infantry is to seek out and close with the enemy,
to kill or capture him,
to seize and to hold ground,
to repel attack,
by night and day, regardless of season, weather or terrain.

website started April 2005