John Stewart Williams
I whānau mai i te 15 Dec 1948 - I mate atu i te 17 Jun 1969
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 41530 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Jack AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Private AWMM 6th Royal Australian Regiment / New Zealand (ANZAC) Battalion, Victor 4 Company (1RNZIR) AWMM
- Pakanga
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- John Stewart AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Williams AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Jack AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 41530 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
- 15 Dec 1948 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- 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
- Mrs Williams (wife), Napier, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Married AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 41530 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
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- 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
- Vietnam Private Ministry for Culture and Heritage 6th Royal Australian Regiment / New Zealand (ANZAC) Battalion, Victor 4 Company (1RNZIR) Ministry for Culture and Heritage 1st Australian Task Force 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
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Private AWMM
6th Royal Australian Regiment / New Zealand (ANZAC) Battalion, Victor 4 Company (1RNZIR) AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Attended Terrace School, Waipukurau.
Formerly buried at Terendak Camp, Malacca, Malaysia. Returned to New Zealand as part of the Te Auraki Repatriation Project in 2018.
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) began repatriating the remains of personnel buried in Malaysia during 2018.
This is part of project Te Auraki (The Return), under which the NZDF is bringing home personnel and dependants buried overseas after 1 January, 1955, following a change in Government policy.
Private Williams' mother, Mrs June Williams of North Shore, Auckland, received the New Zealand Operational Service Medal on his behalf from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence at a presentation at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on Thursday 27 November 2003
Memorial Flag - Presented to family.
Killed in action - Gunshot wound to head and neck.
Killed in action, 17 June 1969 – gunshot wounds to head and neck in contact. John (Jack) Williams grew up in Waipukurau and joined the Regular Force cadets in 1965. After postings to NSTU Burnham and 1 Battalion Depot, he joined 1RNZIR at Terendak, Malaysia in November 1968. A training accident prevented him from accompanying the main body of V4 Company to Vietnam in May 1969. He rejoined the Company on 17 June 1969 during Operation Laverack. He was killed in action later that day when V4 encountered a large enemy bunker system.Read an article about Jack Williams (Napier Mail, 3 April 2012). AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 17 Jun 1969 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Age 21 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Waipukurau Cemetery, Waipukurau, Hawkes Bay AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Obituary: Hawkes Bay Today, 23 August 2018 AWMM
- In August 2018 - Jack Williams was returned home to NZ, and was re interment at his final resting place at Waipukurau Cemetery.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 June 2023 - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/bay-vietnam-and-malaya-veterans-finally-coming-home
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Hall of Memories. Vietnam. AWMM
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. New Zealand History online website.
http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
Further Reference - New Zealand History online. New Zealand and the the Vietnam War.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/vietnam-war
Further Reference - Australia's Vietnam War
https://web.archive.org/web/20241003003021/https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
Further Reference - NZDF Begins Repatriation Mission in Malaysia
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/2018/nzdf-begins-repatriation-mission-in-malaysia.htm
Further Reference - Clinton Llewellyn, 'Defence minister apologises to families of soldiers finally brought home: 'I'm sorry it took so long', Hawkes Bay Today, 26 August 2018
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/defence-minister-apologises-to-families-of-soldiers-finally-brought-home-quotim-sorry-it-took-so-longquot/FKHMON6FT347OLW6WCMFOMHTBQ/
Further Reference
- Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. New Zealand History online website.
- Ngā tuhinga
- Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co.
- Information kindly provided by family
New Zealand Ex-Vietnam Services Association Inc. - McGibbon, I.C. (2010). New Zealand's Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle
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