Harry Gilbert

Recording about Harry Gilbert, born in 1915. Copied onto a Sanyo C90LN audio cassette tape.

Tauranga surgeon Harold Henry “Harry” Gilbert touches on his New Zealand based wartime service as an RNZAF medical officer, his postwar flying with the Tauranga Aero Club and expands on his years game fishing aboard Achinar. He describes his presidency of the Tauranga Big Game Fishing Club, the development of its South East Bay facilities on Tūhua / Mayor Island, the campaign for a navigation light, and the people, catches and mishaps he remembers from those years.