Australian Vietnam War veterans Jim Weston (left) and Pete Frost at yesterday’s dawn service at the Dunedin Cenotaph. Mrs Weston said the day was an important occasion for both families, and they had wanted to ‘‘spend Anzac Day with some New Zealanders’’ for a long time. Australia had a much larger contribution to the Vietnam War than New Zealand. About 60,000 Australians served in total between 1962 and 1972, and 521 were killed. Mr Frost (68) said it had not taken long for the pair to come across ‘‘about half a dozen’’ Kiwi veterans of the Vietnam War yesterday.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 25, 2018 17:03 UTC