New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1498

About

Born in New Zealand

6 August 1885

Parent

Mother

S. Cooper

Residence

Hometown

Maaruawhenua

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 56

11 October 1941

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 97/0028160, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Cooper (1885-1941)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/154