BISHOP, John Joseph

Biography:

Lieutenant J. J. Bishop, who has been killed in section, was the eldest of the three sons of Mr. J. J. Bishop, of Dunvegan, Titirangi, all of whom went on active service. Lieutenant Bishop, who was a teacher in the employ of the Auckland Education Board, was educated at the Titirangi and Avondale schools and the Grammar School, and subsequently went through a two years' course at the Auckland Training College. He was in charge of the Kaitaia school prior to his enlistment. He left as a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade in the thirteenth reinforcements in 1916. He went to France from England as a private, and obtained some of his first experiences of the firing-line at a member of a Lewis machine-gun section. He subsequently was promoted on the field, and on obtaining his commission was attached to the Otago Infantry Battalion. He was 24 years of age. Sergt, T. A. Bishop, the second son, who left with the twelfth reinforcements, is now serving on the western front. The third and youngest son, Private W. N. C. Bishop, enlisted on attaining his 20th birthday, and left with the twenty-eighth reinforcements. (NZH 22 October 1917)

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