Graham Richard Grigg
I whānau mai i te 5 Oct 1933 - I mate atu i te 4 Dec 1965
- Nama Hōia
- Malaya 645140 AWMM
- Vietnam 645140 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Dick AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Staff Sergeant AWMM Headquarters, V Force AWMM
- Pakanga
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 5 Oct 1933 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
- Pre 01 Aug 1957 AWMM 114 Wright Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Mrs N.E. Grigg (mother), Waikanae, New Zealand AWMM
- 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
- Malaya 645140 AWMM
- Vietnam 645140 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- New Zealand Territorial Force AWMM
4 years AWMM - 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
- 01 Aug 1957 AWMM
Age 23 AWMM
Clerk 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 Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Regiment, 1 Battalion, Medical Unit AWMM British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve AWMM
- Vietnam Staff Sergeant Ministry for Culture and Heritage Headquarters Vietnam Force (HQ V Force) Ministry for Culture and Heritage Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps AWMM
2nd 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
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Staff Sergeant AWMM
Headquarters, V Force AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- According to Colin Whyte, he was due to go to Vietnam instead of Dick Grigg, but as Colin was to be married in a couple of months, Dick stood in for him on the posting. It was during this posting that Dick was killed.
Death was caused by a cerebral haemorrage caused by high explosive blast after a terrorist bomb exploded below his room in the Metropole Hotel Saigon on 4 December 1965.At the time of his death, he was pay clerk Headquarters NZ 'V' Force. A brief Memorial Service was held at Saigon on 9 December 1965 and his body was flown to Malaysia on 11 December. The funeral service was held at Terendak with full Military Honours on 14 December. Mass was celebrated at the Church of Corpus Christi with approximately 180 people attending. When the graveside service was finished volleys were fired and wreaths laid. A telegram of condolence was despatched to the next of kin. (from letter to Minister of Defence from R.V.J. Johnson (13.1.66)
A memorial Cross was issued to the family on 8 July 1966.
Formerly buried at Terendak Camp, Malacca, Malaysia. Returned to New Zealand as part of the Te Auraki Repatriation Project.
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.
Killed in action, 4 December 1965 – bomb explosion at the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Also WIA in the same incident were 39788 LCpl JC Denham and 38518 LCpl GS Smart. Buried in Terendak Camp. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 4 Dec 1965 AWMM
Age 32 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
- Awa Tapu Cemetery, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast, Wellington AWMM Plot 12, Servicemen's Burial Beam AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Death Notice (repatriation): Dominion Post, 25 August to 13 October 2018 AWMM
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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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 - Emma Hatton, 'Plaque unveiled for Vietnam vet in Paraparaumu', www.stuff.co.nz, 5 April 2017
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/91232025/plaque-unveiled-for-vietnam-vet-in-paraparaumu
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.
- 1st Battalion - New Zealand Regiment - Historical Records - General, July 1957-1959, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADRC 17588 2/1/1 (R17928162).
- Clamp, B., Clamp, D., & 1st Battalion the New Zealand Regiment (1957-59) Association. (2007). 1st battalion the New Zealand regiment (1957-59) association 50th anniversary: the first of the first. B. Clamp.
- This record was partially created from Cemetery research completed by Carol Foster (2021).
- Black, E. A. (n.d.). N.Z. armed forces honours & awards : Korea, Malaya, South Vietnam, 1950-1972. Wellington, N.Z.: Defence Headquarters.
- McGibbon, I.C. (2010). New Zealand's Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle
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