Know that Face?

NZD 4327, John Boyd Armstrong known as “Jack” joined the RNZN in 1942 as a Signalman.  He is now 91 years old and like many of us his memory is not as good as it was.

As a background – ‘Jack’ had served his time in engineering at the Anchor Foundry in Nelson. He was in the Territorial’s briefly as a signalman but joined the Andrew when he came out of his time at Anchor. A few other folk from the foundry had gone into the Navy by then and one of his ex work-mates was an ERA on the HMNZS Rata,  He told the skipper that Jack should be down in the engine room not up top waving flags about. The Skipper called Jack down to his cabin, asked him if he was interested in changing, he said yes so he eventually ended up back at Philomel and was transferred to the ERA Branch on 24 March 43.

Below are three photographs sadly with no names attached our job is to identify as many as we can before the photo’s just become faces.  Jack has provided a list which may assist.

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Jack is bottom right, David Ernie Dorset is second from left bottom row

David Ernie Dorset is on the left, Jack is in the centre

David Ernie Dorset is second from the left bottom row, Jack is far left

D Dorset HO SIG Palm Nth
John Barry Jarvis HO TEL Wellington – NZ4314
T S McIntyre HO SIG Palm Nth
Ronald Gordon Herrick TEL Christchurch – NZ4312
John Dudley Churton HO SIG Waihi – NZD4337
Gordon David Forrest HO TEL Greymouth – NZ4325
D K Ruttenberg HO SIG Taranaki
William John Randle HO TEL Mikorewa – NZ4325
Derek John Wilson HO TEL Greymouth – 6867
Terence Colin Alcock HO SIG Te Puke – NZD4333
Herbert William Garnett HO SIG Lower Hutt – NZD4326
Mervyn Bates HO TEL Waitakerei – NZD4319
G A Oneil HO TEL Waihi
J G Will Dunedin
John Robert Meldrum Dunedin – NZ4308
Herman Muir Thompson HO TEL Farmer Palmerston Nth – 7105
O W Bannard Wellington
G E Blick Invercargill
P R Snowden Taranaki
A E ONeil Taranaki

The list of names relates to the third Photograph above.