Harry Dudfield

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

Biography

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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 As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the {{NZ election link year|1951}} snap election for the {{NZ electorate link|Gisborne}} electorate.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=308}}

He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=194, 209}} He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea.Dominion, 10 July 1952 In 1953, Dudfield was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |author-link1=Alister Taylor |author-link2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=412}}

After his time in Parliament, he worked as a health inspector in Rotorua and then in Tawa.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=308}} In 1955, he married Mona Lindsay at the Presbyterian Church in St Albans, Christchurch.{{cite news |title=Untitled |url=http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN12_19550630/fig-GPN12_19550630_034a.jpg.html |access-date=19 November 2012 |work=Gisborne Photo News |date=30 June 1955 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055130/http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN12_19550630/fig-GPN12_19550630_034a.jpg.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }} Dudfield died on 19 July 1987 in Tawa,{{cite web |title=Cremation Details |url=http://www.pcc.govt.nz/cemetery/popup_details.asp?id=13992 |publisher=Porirua City Council |access-date=19 November 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052515/http://www.pcc.govt.nz/cemetery/popup_details.asp?id=13992 |url-status=dead }} and his wife died on 14 November 2010.{{cite web |title=Mona Dudfield |url= http://www.tributes.co.nz/ViewMyTribute.aspx?id=5877 |publisher=Tributes Online Ltd |access-date=19 November 2012}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |last = Gustafson |first = Barry |author-link = Barry Gustafson |title = The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party |year = 1986 |publisher = Reed Methuen |location = Auckland |isbn = 0-474-00177-6 }}
{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}

Category:1912 births

Category:1987 deaths

Category:New Zealand National Party MPs

Category:New Zealand military personnel of World War II

Category:New Zealand military personnel of the Korean War

Category:New Zealand Army officers

Category:People from Gisborne, New Zealand

Category:New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates

Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives

Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1954 New Zealand general election

Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1949 New Zealand general election