CHIEF’S SON IN VIETNAM
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 27. Second-Lieutenant M. W. Thornton, son of New Zealand’s Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant-General Sir Leonard Thornton, has left on a 12-month tour of duty with the 161st Battery at Nui Dat, South Vietnam.
He travelled with a party of replacements last week and will serve in the battery now being used in support of New Zealand infantry.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31407, 28 June 1967, Page 3
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