New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Lance Corporal

Serial

4/1564

About

Born in New Zealand

16 November 1881

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Railway Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Minnie Capill

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 72

26 May 1954

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5530 42/0022665, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William Reuben Capill (1881-1954)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/106