Robin Guy Williams
I whānau mai i te 14 Aug 1930 - I mate atu i te 4 Feb 2023
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 30425 AWMM
- Malaya 30425 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Rob AWMM
- R. G. Williams AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Major General/Military AWMM
- Pakanga
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Robin Guy AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Williams AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Rob AWMM
- R. G. Williams AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 30425 AWMM
- Malaya 30425 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 14 Aug 1930 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
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- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 30425 AWMM
- Malaya 30425 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- 1948 AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- Malaya Fijian Infantry Regiment AWMM
- Malaya Vessel was Captain Cook AWMM Captain/Military Nom Roll 2NZ Reg New Zealand Regiment, 2 Battalion, Headquarters Nom Roll 2NZ Reg British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM - Vietnam Lieutenant Colonel/Military Ministry for Culture and Heritage Visitor AWMM Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment AWMM
3rd Embarkation AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Major General/Military AWMM
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Kōrero taurongo
- Was a Staff Cadet at RMC Duntroon from 1949 to 1952 before graduating into the New Zealand Regiment in December 1952.
Adjutant in 1 Battalion, the Canterbury Regiment, and then in 2 New Zealand Regiment 59/61 Malaya.
CO, 1 RNZIR in Singapore, 1968-70. Later Chief of General Staff from December 1981 to December 1984.
Photo of Capt. R. G. Williams in The Officers, 2nd Battalion The New Zealand Regiment (Taiping, Malaya 1960).
Photo of Capt. R. G. Williams in The Officers, 2nd Battalion The New Zealand Regiment (Malaya 1961). AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 4 Feb 2023 AWMM
Age 92 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- WILLIAMS, Robin Guy Major General CB MBE OStJ. Died peacefully on 4 February 2023, aged 92 years. Adored husband of Jill, dearly loved father of Sarah, Guy and Victoria. Much loved by all his grandchildren and their families.
Published by The New Zealand Herald on Feb. 8, 2023. AWMM - Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
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Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- New Zealand's Vietnam War Veterans. Personal page
http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/veteran/lt-col-rg-williams
Sources Used - Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. New Zealand History online website.
http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
Further Reference - Australia's Vietnam War
https://web.archive.org/web/20241003003021/https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
Further Reference - Interview with Major-General Robin Guy Williams, digital transcript. Alexander Turnbull Library (OHDL-000702)
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35859771
Further Reference - Wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Williams_(New_Zealand_general)
Further Reference - Obituary
https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/robin-williams-obituary?id=42244829
Further Reference
- New Zealand's Vietnam War Veterans. Personal page
- Ngā tuhinga
- Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co.
- Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books.
- This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
- Overseas postings and forces - New Zealand Force for Malaya Far East land forces - Officers, 1957-1971, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AD-W6W2564 36 part 3.
- Nominal Roll 2NZ Regiment 1959-1961. Kindly provided by Alan (Archie) Dawson February 2021.
- Fry, P., & New Zealand. Army. Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. Battalion, 1st. (1983). The First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment : Journal / [P.J. Fry, editor] (25th anniversary commemorative ed.). Singapore: The Regiment.
- FARELF Nominal Roll Part 1 1958-1961 - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, CAJN CH189/Box70 41/4/11 (R21234083)
- McGibbon, I.C. (2010). New Zealand's Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle
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