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Flag lowering ceremony, Vietnam

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Flag lowering ceremony, Vietnam

The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment flag and the Royal Australian Regiment flag are lowered for the last time at Nui Dat, South Vietnam, in November 1971. Australians and New Zealanders had operated from the base as part of the Anzac Battalion for over five years.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Australian War Memorial

Reference: CUN/71/0536/VN

by William James Cunneen

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Philippa Mein Smith, Australia and New Zealand – Defence and security, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33132/flag-lowering-ceremony-vietnam (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Philippa Mein Smith, i tāngia i te 20 March 2012.