Henry Joseph Dare

1884-1956

Unit

Main Body

Section

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

Army Experience

  • 6th Hauraki Regiment

    New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Mentioned in Dispatches ribbon

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

    Death

    Died at the age of 72

    2 November 1956

    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 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.

    How to cite this page

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