A New Zealand ‘Vietnam War’ Pair awarded to Lance-Corporal B. Wahanui, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, comprising: Vietnam, 1964-73 (40331 LCpl B Wahanui RNZIR); South Vietnam Medal 1964 (40331 B. Wahanui); Pair loose, with riband bar, three cap badges, and four pieces of cloth insignia, nearly extremely fine (10) 40331 Lance-Corporal Barry Wahanui was born on 30 November 1939, and joined in the 1st Battalion R.N.Z.I.R. – seeing service on the Malay-Thai border, Borneo, and Vietnam. He was killed in a road accident near Batu Pahat, Malalya, while driving a car to a course at the Jungle Warfare School on 19 April 1969, at the age of 29, and was buried at Kawhia Cemetery, New Zealand. (The ‘Online Cenotaph – Auckland War Memorial Museum’, refers). He is believed to be entitled to an additional G.S.M. with clasps ‘Malay Peninsula’ and ‘Borneo’.

Estimate: GBP 300 - 500