Harry Dudfield

Background

Dudfield was born in Gisborne in 1912.

Career

He worked for A. and T. Burt until World 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 As an New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to context the 1951 snap election for the Gisborne electorate.

He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in of Korea.

After his time in Parliament, he worked as a health inspector in Rotorua and then in Tawa.

Achievements

• He won the Gisborne electorate from Labour"s Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954.