Oswald Charles Cossey

1886-†?

Portrait of Oswald Charles Cossey

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1251

About

Born in New Zealand

19 June 1886
Parent

Mother

J. Cossey
Live

Hometown

Drury
Work

Occupation

Platelayer

Employer

New Zealand Railways
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

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 102/0028686, Military Personnel File.

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

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-C307.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Oswald Charles Cossey (1886-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/163