New Zealand Tunnellers

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

Thames Rifles

3 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 75

28 April 1967

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.

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