New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Second Corporal

Serial

4/1249

About

Born in England

24 August 1881

Parent

Mother

J. Clifford

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Driver

Employer

Fooley, Avondale

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When every endeavour was being made to complete machine-gun nests in anticipation of a heavy hostile attack in March 1918 at Roeux, his utter disregard for danger, his skill and personal example enabled the work to be completed prior to the attack, although the area was persistently searched by hostile trench-mortar and machine-gun fire. During his two and a half years service in forward areas he has always set his men a notable example of courage and devotion to duty.

Medal for Steadfastness and Loyalty (Romania)

For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.

Death

Died at the age of 80

22 May 1962

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 76/0026012, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 3 September 1919, p. 11190.

Ibid., 20 September 1919, p. 11754.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 2.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Francis Henry Clifford (1881-1962)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/130