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Richard Leonard Bennett

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  • Service number
    Vietnam 902902 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • R. L. Bennett AWMM
    • Dick AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
photo taken prior to deployment to Vietnam October 1969

Pte RL Bennett W3 RNZIR

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Identity

  • Title
  • Forenames
    Richard Leonard AWMM
  • Surname
    Bennett AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • R. L. Bennett AWMM
    • Dick AWMM
  • Service number
    Vietnam 902902 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    19 April 1948 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Service

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Training and Enlistment

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Prisoner of war

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  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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Biographical information

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Death

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co. AWMM
    • Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books. AWMM
    • This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. AWMM

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