Harry Dudfield
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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 As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the Template:NZ election link year snap election for the Template:NZ electorate link electorate.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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]
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- 1912 births
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- New Zealand National Party MPs
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- New Zealand military personnel of the Korean War
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- People from Gisborne, New Zealand
- New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Unsuccessful candidates in the 1954 New Zealand general election
- Unsuccessful candidates in the 1949 New Zealand general election