William Swanson Read Bloomfield

I whānau mai i te 1885 - I mate atu i te 1 Dec 1969

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka: Army AWMM
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Te tūnga whakamutunga: WW1 Flight Commander/Military AWMM
Pakanga: World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

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Portrait of Captain William Swanson Read Bloomfield, Auckland Weekly News, 2 November 1916. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19161102-40-7. Image has no known copyright restrictions. No Known Copyright Restrictions

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A Captain in the Royal Flying Corps, 57 Squadron

In 1926 he was involved as a member of the Building Committee for St Augustine's Church, Calliope Road, Devonport AWMM
Mar 1916 - Mrs Bloomfield has received a cable from the Secretary of tho British War Office, stating that her son, Lieut. W. S. R. Bloomfield, of the Royal Flying Corps, was admitted to the Bed Cross Hospital, Rouen, on March 3, with a gunshot wound on the knee (slight). Flying-Lieutenant Bloomfield had gone to England to study architecture, and when war broke out he was about to sit first final examination. On the outbreak of hostilities he joined the aviation department and made such good progress that he received promotion, and, as stated, now occupies the rank of lieutenant. He is a brother of Mrs Harold Bright.
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 14 January 2016 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13934, 6 March 1916, Page
William Swanson Read Bloomfield, was the first known qualified architect practicing in New Zealand of Maori descent. He was the grandson of William Swanson and Ani Rangitunoa. Born in Gisborne, he studied in England, on the European Continent, and also the University of Pennsylvania, USA. During World War I he served as Captain in the Royal Flying Corps, 57 Squadron, and was shot down behind enemy lines in 1917, serving time as a prisoner of war in Germany until the end of hostilities. In November 1929, he married Rhoda Gribbin at Holy Trinity Church in Devonport. During the 1920s, he became a foundation member of the Auckland Aero Club.
He practiced in Auckland from the mid 1920s until his retirement in 1959, either in sole practice or with a number of partnerships.
In 1954, Home & Building published a brief biography on Bloomfield, in which it was stated he was “interested in early English and Chinese china, old Italian bronzes, and water colours.” An undated thesis of his still survives in the School of Architecture records: at the University of Auckland “The Structural Development of the Early Christian Basilica to Amiens Cathedral”.
His ashes were interned at Purewa Cemetery in 1969
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 14 January 2016 - http://timespanner.blogspot.co.nz/2010/06/timespanner-visits-titirangi-village.html

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