New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1341

About

Born in New Zealand

9 October 1884

Residence

Hometown

Thames

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Sylvia Mine, Thames

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

A. Dare

6th Hauraki Regiment

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Mentioned in Dispatches

For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty during the period 26th February to midnight 20th-21st September 1917.

Died at the age of 72

2 November 1956

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 13/0031800, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 28 December 1917, p. 13575.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “Henry Joseph Dare (1884-1956)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/189