Henry Gay Challis

1891-1967

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1607

About

Born in New Zealand

29 July 1891
Parent

Father

Frederick Challis
Residence

Hometown

Thames
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waitangi Gold Mining Company
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • Thames Rifles

    3 years in New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 75

    28 April 1967

    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 54/0023895, 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, “Henry Gay Challis (1891-1967)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/118