Darcy Clarence Hadfield
I whānau mai i te 1 Dec 1889 - I mate atu i te 15 Sept 1964
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 40552 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Darcy Clarence AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Hadfield AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 40552 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 1 Dec 1889 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
- Son of William Welby & Martha Adele Anne HADFIELDPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- 26 Cook Street, Rocky Nook , AucklandPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - Military record
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Mrs S.M. Hadfield (wife), 26 George Street, Rocky Nook, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- 1916 Darcy Clarence HADFIELD married Sarita May COYLEPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - NZ BDM Marriage Records
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 40552 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Shipwright/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 14 Mar 1917-21 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 79 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 23rd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Wounded at Passchendaele AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of William Welby Hadfield and Martha Adele Ann nee Snow
Husband of Sereta (Sarita) May Coyle; father of three
Champion sculler in New Zealand first winning in 1913 the singles championship
Whilst enlisted was a member of the NZEF Rowing Club. Won the singles at the Royal Henley Peace Regatta in July 1919.
Marshal Pétain, the French commander in chief, presented gold stop-watches to the two men he considered to be the outstanding competitors at the Inter Allied Games Games, Paris 1919 both went to New Zealanders, Darcy Hadfield (sculler) and Dan Mason, a middle-distance runner. (McMillan. DNZB.)
An Olympic representative at Antwerp 1920, winning a bronze medal and later a professional rower.
Inducted in 1990 to the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 15 Sept 1964 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
- 74yrsPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183103898/darcy_clarence-hadfield
- Wāhi Mate
- AucklandPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183103898/darcy_clarence-hadfield
- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
- Cremated, Ashes scattered on the water at Okahu Bay in the Waitemata Harbour.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183103898/darcy_clarence-hadfield
- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Champion single sculler, he won Bronze at the 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp. Born at Awaroa Inlet, Tasman Bay.
At 13 Darcy started working on the family farm & learned carpentry & boatbuilding from his father. In 1910 he moved to Auckland where he was employed at Charles Bailey's boat yard as a shipwright. Later he worked for the Union Steam Ship Company of NZ
Soon after his marriage in 1916 he embarked on active service with the 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment. In 1917 he was wounded at Passchendaele (Passendale) & recuperated in England. He recovered & returned to the trenches, but suffered a bronchitis attack & was recuperating in England when the war ended.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183103898/darcy_clarence-hadfield - Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16789898
Further Reference - McMillan, N.A.C. 'Hadfield, Darcy Clarence 1889 - 1964'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 22 June 2007
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz
Further Reference - New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/index.pasp
Further Reference - Olympedia. (2023). Darcy Hadfield.
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/39191
Further Reference - New Zealand Liberation Museum | Te Arawhata. (2024, July 3). Oarsome talent.
https://nzliberationmuseum.com/oarsome-talent/
Further Reference - Collinge, Ross. (2014). George Cooke, an Olympian Soldier. Journal of Olympic History, 22(2), p.28-30.
https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/262.pdf
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
- Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
- Information kindly provided by family
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
57: 4 - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 2: Includes portrait - Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
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