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Walter James Austin

1875-1921

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Second Corporal

Serial

4/1561

About

Born

9 November 1875
Residence

Hometown

Tauranga
Work

Occupation

Contractor

Army Experience

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 45

21 March 1921

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 W5520 35/0009988, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Walter James Austin (1875-1921)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/17

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