{"id":2493,"date":"2024-11-25T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2493"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:21:20","slug":"norman-stuart-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/rosina-cairns-stark\/norman-stuart-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Stuart Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on the 29 April 1912\u00a0at\u00a0Gisborne, East Cape, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worked as Fireman initially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Married Mary Matthews in 1938. There may have children from the union, but I have not identified them yet. Norman joined the war effort as a Private in the New Zealand Ordnance Corp. His war number was WWII 40964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman&#8217;s occupation was mainly as fireman in Whanganui and then the Hutt valley. After that he ran a small newsstand business in Levin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman passed away on the 13 August 1970\u00a0at\u00a0Levin, Horowhenua, Manawatu, New Zealand. He is buried in Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Norman-Smith-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kelvin Grove Cemetery. Findagrave: PC<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mary passed away in 1985 and is buried in Makara Cemetery in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Joyce-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Joyce-Smith.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Joyce-Smith-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on the 29 April 1912\u00a0at\u00a0Gisborne, East Cape, New Zealand Worked as Fireman initially. Married Mary Matthews in 1938. There may have children from the union, but I have not identified them yet. Norman joined the war effort as a Private in the New Zealand Ordnance Corp. His war number was WWII 40964. Norman&#8217;s occupation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/rosina-cairns-stark\/norman-stuart-smith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norman Stuart Smith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":907,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2493\/revisions\/3705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}