Tony Michael Walser

Warrant Officer Class 2

Conflict:

East Timor

NZ WAR GRAVES

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Biographical Notes:

The NZ Herald reported on 30th July 2000, "Army medics battled in vain to save a New Zealand soldier who was critically injured during a road accident in East Timor. Shocked colleagues rushed to help popular Warrant Officer Tony Walser after his Unimog utility truck rolled down a 6m bank on Tuesday.He had been transporting a load of gravel and was following another truck when the road, believed to have been weakened by monsoon rains, collapsed under his vehicle.

The accident happened 8km from the border with West Timor in the Suai region, where the New Zealand battalion has operated for the past two months. Warrant Officer Walser was taken to the field medical unit, where doctors struggled to save him, but he died from massive head injuries."

Cremated in Palmerston North, we do not know of any memorial, except the "Tears on the Heart" Memorial at Auckland War Memorial Museum, where all 5 names from East Timor are listed. [There is also a memorial at the New Zealand Embassy in Díli, Timor-Leste, as can be seen in the public contribution on this page.]

Public Contributions:

Submitted by: Andrew Patterson

Relationship to casualty: No Relation

I visited East Timor recently and there is a memorial plaque in the grounds of the NZ Embassy in Dili which commemorates the lives of the five soldiers who died in Timor along with the names of two o... Read More

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Casualty

Service Number:

G748357

Name:

Tony Michael Walser

Rank:

Warrant Officer Class 2

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Killed in a road accident on active service

Date of Death:

30 November 1999

Day of Death:

Tuesday

Conflict:

East Timor

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Palmerston North (Kelvin Grove) Crematorium

Cemetery Reference:

Burial details unknown.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand