John Charles Reidy

Forenames

John Charles AWMM

Surname

Reidy AWMM

Service number

• WWII 593 AWMM
• Korea CP004 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

22 Apr 1914 Births, Deaths and Marriages

Birth notes

Son of John Henry & Olivia Frances REIDY of Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 March 2024 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Address before enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM 56 Red Lion Street, London W.C.1, England AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mrs R.G. Reidy (wife), c/o Mrs Ritch, Chapmore End, Hertford, England AWMM

Relationship status

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
  Roma Reidy (nee Garratt) AWMM
• 1939 John m. Roma Gertrude GARRATT in England
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 March 2024 - England's Marriage Records

War

• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
• Korean War, 1950-1953 AWMM

Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• Civilian AWMM
• 2nd NZEF Gnr NZ Artillery
  Public - Carl Robinson - Researcher - 14 May 2017 - Inscription on his gravestone in RSA area of Waiheke Island Lawn Cemetery: "J. C. REIDY 593 2nd NZEF Gnr NZ Artillery"

Service number

• WWII 593 AWMM
• Korea CP004 AWMM

Military service

• New Zealand Forces Club AWMM
• Kiwi Concert Party AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Linotype operator/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW2 Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Artillery, 7 Anti-Tank Regiment, 34 Heavy Mortar Battery AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• Korea Mr/Civilian Chamberlain (2013) National Broadcasting Service Concert Party Chamberlain (2013) British Commonwealth Forces Korea (Kayforce) AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Last rank

Korea 20 Aug 1954 Chamberlain (2013)

• Reference is made to Jack Reidy in the collection of letters written by Richard McGregor Murray (25704) and published by the family.
  
  Member of the Kiwi Concert Party. AWMM
• Born 1914, Gisborne, New Zealand. Died 1977 at Waiheke, Auckland, New Zealand. Son of John Henry Reidy and Olivia Frances Bessie Gardener. Husband of Roma Gertrude Garratt, 1905-83.
  Public - Carl Robinson - Researcher - 14 May 2017 - New Zealand BDM and Cemetery records

Death

29 Dec 1977 AWMM
Age  63 AWMM

Cemetery

Waiheke Lawn Cemetery, Onetangi Waiheke Island AWMM Area RSA Block 7 Lot No 58 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• 'Music and the Stage' Waikato Times, 14 June 1941
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19410614.2.107.3
  Further Reference
• 'Personal' Waikato Times, 26 September 1945
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19450926.2.44
  Further Reference
• 'Hamilton Performer' Waikato Times, 7 December 1943
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19431207.2.17
  Further Reference
• 'Where Interest in Stage has taken Gisborne Man' Gisborne Herald, 17 August 1950
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19500817.2.44?
  Further Reference
• John Reidy, National Library
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22442749
  Further Reference
• Ward, A. (2014, February 11; updated April 22, 2022). Musicians at War: The Kiwi Concert Party in World War II. AudioCulture
  https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/musicians-at-war-the-kiwi-concert-party-in-world-war-ii
  Further Reference
• Burns, C. (2012). Taste of Civvy Street: Heroic adventure and domesticity in the soldier concert parties of the first and second world wars. Journal of New Zealand Studies, (13), 115-127
  https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/1196/1121
  Further Reference
• Tripoli to Blenheim: Kiwi Concert Party's Revue Happy Show Last Night. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVII, Issue 222, 23 September 1943, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX19430923.2.36
  Further Reference
• Habgood, Noel, 1911-1975. Members of Kiwi Concert Party group in Syria - Photograph taken by Private Habgood. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-02640-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22851863
  https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22851863
  Further Reference

References

• Murray, R.M. "My dearest Mum and Dad" : letters from a World War II Gunner. Auckland, N.Z.: The Author?
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
• 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.
• 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.
• Vaughan, T. (1995). Whistle as you go : the story of the Kiwi Concert Party. Auckland, N.Z.: Random House NZ.
• Burns, C. (2012). Parading kiwis : New Zealand soldier concert parties, 1916-1954 [Dissertation].
• Reed, J. E. (1944). Sing as We Go: The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party in the Middle East from 1941 to 1943. Wellington, N.Z.: Raupo Books.