Profile

PARK, John William Joseph
(Service number 38208)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	01/05/1891	Place of Birth	Glenavy, South Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date	Enlisted as John William PARK	Age
Address at Enlistment	Orouiti, Hawkes Bay
Occupation	Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	G. J. PARK (father), Glenavy, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Reinforcements H Company
Date	16 February 1917
Transport	Navua
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards	Military Medal

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	1 October 1964	Age	73 years
Place of Death	Wairoa
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Wharerangi Cemetery, Napier, Hawkes Bay
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John William Joseph Park was the youngest son of George and Christina (née Dallas) Park. He returned to New Zealand on the Maunganui in June 1919. Jack married Edith Mary Bluck on 6 April 1920 at Wairoa. An older brother, Alexander Dallas Park, who had served in the South African War, was called up in 1918.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 March 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [18 March 2018]; Timaru Herald, 16 June 1919 (Papers Past) [17 March 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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