New Zealand Military Personnel of World War I: Keith Park, Richard Hutton Davies, Gordon Coates, William Walkley, Rewi Alley

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Keith Park, Richard Hutton Davies, Gordon Coates, William Walkley, Rewi Alley, Horace Robert Martineau, Bill Kelly, Silston Cory-Wright, Alexander Godley, Norman Harold Moss, Bill Barnard, Pat Hanna, Howard Kippenberger, Karl Ifwersen, William George Malone, George Napier Johnston, James Hargest, Leonard Monk Isitt, James Waddell, John Marwick, James Courtney, Thomas Culling, Arthur Plugge, William James Hardham, Cuthbert MacLean, Archibald Jack, Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop, George Mitchell, Carl Berendsen, Roy Traill, Edward Chaytor, Erima Harvey Northcroft, Bright Williams, Cedric Stanton Hicks, William Sullivan, Victor Spencer, Vivian Harold Potter, Duncan Rae, Fred Waite, Clutha Mackenzie, Harold Beamish, John McManus, John Luxford, William Henry Dillon Bell, Thomas Ashby, Thomas Templeton Murray. Excerpt: Second World War Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, RAF (15 June 1892 - 6 February 1975) was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander. He was in tactical command during two of the most significant air battles in the European theatre in the Second World War, helping to win the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Malta. In Germany, he was known as the Defender of London. Park was born in Thames, New Zealand. He was the son of a Scottish geologist for a mining company. An undistinguished young man, but keen on guns and riding, Keith Park was educated at King's College, Auckland until 1906 and then at Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin where he served in the cadets. Later he joined the Army as a Territorial soldier in the New Zealand Field Artillery. In 1911, at age 19, he went to sea as a purser aboard collier and passenger steamships, earning the family nickname skipper. When the First World War broke out, Park left the ship...