Harry Dudfield Explained

Harry Dudfield (12 May 1912 – 19 July 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Dudfield was born in Gisborne in 1912. He worked for A. and T. Burt until World War II, when he became a soldier and served in the Middle East, Italy and the Pacific. After the war, he worked for the Department of Health, first in Auckland and then in Tokomaru Bay. As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the snap election for the electorate.

He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954. He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea.[1] In 1953, Dudfield was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[2]

After his time in Parliament, he worked as a health inspector in Rotorua and then in Tawa. In 1955, he married Mona Lindsay at the Presbyterian Church in St Albans, Christchurch.[3] Dudfield died on 19 July 1987 in Tawa,[4] and his wife died on 14 November 2010.[5]

References

Notes and References

  1. Dominion, 10 July 1952
  2. Book: Taylor . Alister . Coddington . Deborah . Alister Taylor . Deborah Coddington . Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand . 1994 . New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa . Auckland . 0-908578-34-2 . 412.
  3. News: Untitled . 19 November 2012 . Gisborne Photo News . 30 June 1955 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055130/http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN12_19550630/fig-GPN12_19550630_034a.jpg.html . 4 March 2016 . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Cremation Details . Porirua City Council . 19 November 2012 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052515/http://www.pcc.govt.nz/cemetery/popup_details.asp?id=13992 . dead .
  5. Web site: Mona Dudfield . Tributes Online Ltd . 19 November 2012.