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Harry Dudfield

Harry Dudfield

New Zealand politician


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 As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the 1951 snap election for the Gisborne electorate.[1]

He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954.[2] He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea.[3] In 1953, Dudfield was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[4]

After his time in Parliament, he worked as a health inspector in Rotorua and then in Tawa.[1] In 1955, he married Mona Lindsay at the Presbyterian Church in St Albans, Christchurch.[5] Dudfield died on 19 July 1987 in Tawa,[6] and his wife died on 14 November 2010.[7]


Notes

  1. Wilson 1985, pp. 194, 209.
  2. Dominion, 10 July 1952
  3. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 412. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  4. "Untitled". Gisborne Photo News. 30 June 1955. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  5. "Cremation Details". Porirua City Council. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  6. "Mona Dudfield". Tributes Online Ltd. Retrieved 19 November 2012.

References

  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.



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