Ronald Stuart Park

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Ronald Stuart AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Park AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 66504 AWMM
• WWII 855 AWMM
• Korea 30004 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

18 Feb 1895 AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Soldier/Military AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mrs S.M. Park (mother), Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
• Korean War, 1950-1953 AWMM
• Regular Military Service AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• Air Force AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 66504 AWMM
• WWII 855 AWMM
• Korea 30004 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Northern Military District AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) AWMM
  1943 AWMM
• Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) AWMM
  1952 AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Korea Medal (EIIR) AWMM
• United Nations Medal for Korea AWMM
• New Zealand Operational Service Medal AWMM
• Coronation Medal ER 1953 AWMM
• Order of Military Merit (South Korea) AWMM

Te urunga

• WW1 Soldier/Military AWMM
• Korea Army officer (retired)/Civilian K-Force R22440250

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 21 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
  HMNZT 96 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM 32nd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Brigadier/Military AWMM Royal New Zealand Artillery, Force Headquarters AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• Korea Brigadier/Military K-Force R22440250 Headquarters K-Force R22440250 British Commonwealth Forces Korea (Kayforce) AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Brigadier/Military AWMM

Matenga

15 Aug 1980 AWMM
Age  85 AWMM

Urupā

Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Ashes Returned AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Brigadier Park, Press, 20 August 1980, Page 7

Auckland Brigadier Ronald Stuart Park, who commanded New Zealand forces in the Korean War, has died in Auckland. He was 85. Brigadier Park was born in Dunedin and after attending Otago Boys’ High School went to the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1914. He graduated in 1916. Then served with the Royal New Zealand Artillery in France , and Belgium until the end of the First World War. During the Second World War he commanded the United Kingdom element of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force until 1946. He then attended the Paris peace conference as New Zealand’s military adviser. From 1947 to 1950, he commanded the Northern Military District before being appointed to command K Force for the duration of the Korean War. He retired in 1953. Brigadier Park made a Commander of was the British Empire in 1943 and a Companion of the Bath in 1952. In 1947 he was appointed an aide-de-camp to King George VI. AWMM

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium records
  http://www.purewa.co.nz/search.asp
  Sources Used
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography essay
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5p10/park-ronald-stuart
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24062396
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268627
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268628
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268629
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268630
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268631
  Further Reference
• Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stuart_Park
  Further Reference
• Ronald Stuart Park, New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-208919.html
  Further Reference
• Mother, Annie Penelope Park
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/annie-penelope-park
  Further Reference
• Brigadier Park, Press, 20 August 1980, Page 7
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19800820.2.60.1
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 42
• Chamberlain, H. (2013). The New Zealand Korea Roll : honouring those who served in the New Zealand Armed Forces in Korea, 1950-1957. Wellington, N.Z.: Author.
  p. 321
• Nominal rolls - Nominal rolls embarkation K-force [Korea Nominal Roll], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1433 (R22440250)
• Black, E. A. (n.d.). N.Z. armed forces honours & awards : Korea, Malaya, South Vietnam, 1950-1972. Wellington, N.Z.: Defence Headquarters.
• Coronation Medals 1953 - Nominal Roll. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21681744)
• McGibbon, I.C. (1992-1996). New Zealand and the Korean War (Vols. 1-2). Auckland, N.Z.; Wellington, N.Z.: Oxford University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.