John Seabrook was an accomplished pilot who served in the first world war joining the Royal Flying Corps in August 1915, winner of the first New Zealand aerial derby in 1929 which would lead to Seabrook being a founding member of the Auckland Aero Club, Commanding the Whenuapai and Hobsonville air stations during world war two which would see John appointed Air Attaché in Washington, DC and subsequently head of New Zealand Air Mission in Washington from 1942-1943, by the end of the war John reached the rank of group captain.
John had accolades after the world wars including but not limited to; chairman of Austin Distributors Federation NZ Limited and Associated Motor Industries Limited, Petone, from 1950-1959; Director, New Zealand Airways Corporation from 1952-1961; President of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Council from 1961-1963; Deputy chairman of the Blinded Servicemen’s Trust Board.
John Seabrook Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph
Photo credit: Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.
John Seabrook
Died 1985
