Blundell was President of the Wellington District Law Society in 1951 , President of the New Zealand Law Society for six years ( 1962 – 1968 ) and Vice-President of the Law Society of Asia and the Pacific in 1966 . He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953 , and knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1967 Queen 's Birthday Honours in recognition of his " services to the legal profession . " He married June Halligan in 1945 . They had a son and a daughter
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
Denis Blundell