New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Lance Corporal

Serial

4/1337

About

Born in Ireland

23 May 1877

Residence

Hometown

Thames

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Jessie Colhoun

Royal Navy

10 years in the United Kingdom

South African War (1899-1902)

2 years

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 61

28 October 1938

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 84/0026839, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

Auckland War Memorial Museum, D570 M48 W241.16.

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Colhoun (1877-1938)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/135