David Wyatt Monaghan (13 July 1922 – 27 January 1944) was a New Zealand first-class

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er and

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soldier. The third son of the archdeacon and cricketer

Harold Monaghan Harold Wyatt Monaghan (7 October 1886 – 15 October 1958) was a New Zealand first-class cricketer and a clergyman in the Anglican Church. Cricket career Monaghan made his first-class debut for Wellington in 1905-06, when in two matches he ...

and his wife, Jessie, Monaghan was born at Pahiatua in July 1922. He received his early education at Timaru on the

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, before attending

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. He was a talented sportsman, representing the college in cricket,

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, athletics and swimming, in addition to being a champion gymnast in 1940.Death of Athlete
'' The New Zealand Herald''. 14 February 1944. p. 5 He was nominated for a team of New Zealand schoolboys to tour Australia in 1939, but the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe led to the tour being cancelled. Upon completing his education in 1940, Monaghan gained employment in the Public Trust Office in Timaru.Obituary Singnalman D. W. Monaghan
''Press''. 5 February 1944. p. 6 By 1943, he was serving in the

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as a

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in the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals. He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the South Island Army cricket team against the North Island Army cricket team at Wellington in February 1943. He made scores of 10 and 9 and was dismissed by Jack Lamason and

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respectively. By July 1943, Monaghan had gone to Europe with the

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, where he saw action during the Italian campaign. He died from sickness in January 1944 at Caserta in Italy. He was buried at the

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. Monaghan's brother, Gerald, was also killed in the war.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Monaghan, David 1922 births 1944 deaths People from Pahiatua People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch New Zealand Army personnel New Zealand cricketers South Island Army cricketers New Zealand military personnel killed in World War II