Conrad Edward Coker

Conrad E. Coker was born in Guernsey in 1914. In 1938 he married Dorothy (Dot) Blanche Heaume.

Coker worked as a Linotype Operator on the Guernsey Press newspaper during the occupation of the island by the Nazis in World War II. He later moved to Wellington (New Zealand), where he continued working a similar job at the Dominion. He went on to work at the Free-Lance before finishing his working life at the Evening Post. Coker also had a connection to the Freemasons as he joined the St Sampsons lodge in Guernsey a year before he moved to New Zealand and after his arrival in New Zealand, he joined the Whetu-Kairangi Lodge in Seatoun.

His son Geoffry Coker presented a box with Coker's diary and background papers detailing his voyage from Britain to New Zealand in 1947 (with souvenirs from his journey) to the University of Waikato Library.

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