Bert Cooksley

He went with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force into World War I and landed at Gallipoli.

Cooksley was a market vegetable grower and, in 1944, President of the New Zealand Council of Commercial Gardeners.

[3] In 1943, he lost the general election for the seat of Otaki, on behalf of the National Party.

[1] In 1953, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal,[5] and he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for community service in the 1965 New Year Honours.

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