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Robert Colhoun

1877-1938

Portrait of Robert Colhoun

Unit

Main Body

Section

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

Army Experience

  • Royal Navy

    10 years in the United Kingdom

  • South African War (1899-1902)

    2 years

    • World War I (1914-1918)

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    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 61

    28 October 1938

    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 84/0026839, Military Personnel File.

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

    Photograph

    Auckland War Memorial Museum, D570 M48 W241.16.

    How to cite this page

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

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