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Vetaffairs / Department of Veterans' Affairs, [1984]-

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Nef 362.86840994 VET
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[Canberra] : [Dept. of Veterans' Affairs]
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(July 1996)
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Vetaffairs  

NEWSPAPER FOR THE VETERAN COMMUNITY  

ISSN 0819-8934  

JULY 1996  

INSIDE THIS ISSUE  

Letters to the Editor  

Vietnam vets ’ convention  

Freedom Wall unveiled  

Controlling Post Traumatic Stress  

Linwall’s test debut  

Hellfire Pass walking track opened  

Full list of Vietnam  

veterans published  

The most complete list of  

Australians who served in the  

Vietnam War was published  

the « Dep tment °  

Veterans Affairs last month.  

The Nominal Roll of Vietnam  

Veterans, which lists almost  

60,000 Australians who saw  

service in Vietnam between  

May 23, 1962 and July 1,  

1973, is now available in book  

form and on computer disk.  

The roll is unique. Unlike any  

other of Australians who  

served in other conflicts, it  

contains listing for all three  

services, as well as the civil-  

ians who directly assisted the  

Australian commitment, on  

one roll.  

It took 18 months to compile  

and contains more than 5,000  

names which had not been  

included in official estimates  

before.  

Previously, estimates suggest-  

ed that approximately 53,000  

armed forces personnel had  

either served or were deemed  

allotted for service in Vietnam  

during the conflict. DVA  

research showed this underes-  

timated the number by some  

5,000.  

The civilians who were on  

official service include war  

correspondents, SEATO  

Surgical Aid Teams, merchant  

seamen, entertainers, mem-  

bers of the Red Cross, YMCA,  

Salvation Army, Everyman’s  

and Australian Forces  

Overseas Fund.  

total of 59,036 men and  

484 women were identified  

as serving in Vietnam.  

However, 76 requested their  

names or service details be  

excluded from the published  

list.  

The roll was compiled from  

diverse sources the list of  

RAN personnel was devel-  

oped from lists provided by  

the navy, and the Defence  

Department’s computer file  

used for the 1984 study was  

the starting point for the  

army list.  

To this was added lists provid-  

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ed by the Soldier Career  

Management Agency which  

included lists of CMF mem-  

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personnel who met the study  

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official figure of 4,443.  

Missing names were tracked  

by cross checking the comput-  

er flle against two published  

lists of RAAF personnel while  

other names were added to the  

rod rom dsts me dical evac-  

uation crews, nurses and  

orderlies provided by the  

RAAF historian,  

Each of the accredited philan-  

thropic organisations supplied  

convoy of around 100 Vietnam veteran bikers spent 46 days in May and June circumnavigating the  

Australian mainland, riding more than 14,000 km to “connect ” with veterans around the country.  

The ride co-incided with the 30th anniversary of the landing of the first Australian Task Force in  

South Vietnam in May 1966 and was organised by the Vietnam Veterans’ Motorcycle Club to raise  

awareness for Legacy which looks afters after more than 122,000 widows and 2,000 children and dis-  

abled dependants throughout Australia. The ride ended in Prince Alfred Park, Sydney. Gary Veale,  

the event director, is pictured above riding past the crowds lined up to welcome the veterans home.  

names of its members who  

served in Vietnam and these  

were verified by the Soldier  

Career Management Agency.  

The Australian Maritime  

Safety Authority supplied  

list of crews of the ships that  

made trips to Vietnam and  

files from the Department of  

Foreign Affairs were searched  

to obtain details of the medical  

and surgical teams.  

The roll of official entertainers  

was taken from Soldier  

Career Management Agency  

list while private researcher  

prepared the list of war corre-  

spondents and photographers,  

which was verified by the  

agency.  

Additional names are expect-  

ed to be added as the roll  

becomes more widely known.  

The roll was compiled as  

prerequisite for study urgent-  

ly being carried out by the  

Department of Veterans’  

Affairs which compares the  

death rates and causes of death  

of male Vietnam veterans with  

those of the Australian male  

population.  

This study the Vietnam  

Veterans’ Mortality Study is  

near completion.  

It examines the numbers,  

causes of, and ages at death of  

male Vietnam veterans  

between their date of first ser-  

vice in Vietnam and the 31st  

of December, 1994.  

It compares their mortality  

rates, classified by age and  

calendar year of death, with  

those of other Australian  

males of comparable ages.  

Other studies using the statistics  

will be carried out, including:  

• comparison of death rates  

and causes of death in  

National Servicemen who  

served in Vietnam during the  

war with those of National  

Servicemen who did not;  

• study of the health, social  

and vocational needs of male  

Vietnam veterans and their  

families.  

Copies of the nominal roll are  

available from Commonwealth  

Government Bookshops  

throughout Australia. The  

book costs $lB and the set of  

five computer disks, $45.  

Health boost for  

veterans in rural  

and remote areas  

Veterans and the doctors, nurses and other health care providers  

who treat them in rural and remote areas of Australia are getting  

lots of attention recently from the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs,  

Bruce Scott, and the Department.  

The Minister is developing Rural and Remote Health Policy  

to ensure that veterans in the more isolated parts of the country  

enjoy the same access to services as those in more populated  

areas. The policy will be finalised by early September.  

“Thirty-one per cent of eligible veterans and war widows live  

in rural Australia and they should not be disadvantaged because  

of it,” said Mr Scott.  

“Coming as do from remote area of Queensland, am very  

aware that people in such locations sometimes miss out on ser-  

vices or are unaware of what is available to them. As Minister  

for Veterans’ Affairs want to do everything can to ensure that  

this most deserving group doesn’t miss out.”  

Meetings are taking place in number of rural towns through-  

out July to find out what health and community care veterans  

need that is not already provided, whether there is enough infor-  

mation about the Department’s services in rural and remote  

areas and how the Department of Veterans’ Affairs could better  

support the health care providers in these places.  

Information about the Rural and Remote Health Policy will also  

be provided to veterans through ex-service and community  

organisations when it is finalised.  

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