Harold Tyrie
Harold Joffre Tyrie (3 August 1915 – 22 February 2007) was a New Zealand track and field athlete who won a bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.[4] On 27 September 1940, he married Phyllis Mary McClelland at St John's Church, Millers Flat,[3] and the couple went on to have three daughters.[5] Representing Otago, Tyrie won the New Zealand national 440 yards title three times: in 1936, 1939, and 1940.[4] Tyrie graduated from the 12th Officer Cadet Training Unit in September 1942 and was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the New Zealand Infantry.[8] Later, in 1944, with the rank of corporal, Tyrie was wounded in Italy while serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.