A Wreath Laying Ceremony will be held at the Menin Gates, Highett Street, Mansfield, on Monday 18 August at 10:00am to mark Vietnam Veterans Day.

Refreshments will follow at the Mansfield RSL.

The commemoration honours the men of D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) and three New Zealanders from New Zealand’s 161 Field Battery, who on 18 August 1966 encountered more than 2,000 Viet Cong soldiers at the Battle of Long Tan.

Eighteen Australians were killed and a further 25 wounded in what remains the highest casualty count suffered by Australian forces in a single engagement of the Vietnam War.