New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37717

About

Born in Scotland

15 April 1882

Parents

Mother

Jane Cummack

Father

Thomas Cummack

Settled in New Zealand

1909

Residence

Hometown

Huntly

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Taupiri Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 40

1 July 1922

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5537 4/0030819, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Cummack (1882-1922)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/180