New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37474

About

Born in New Zealand

15 August 1895

Parents

Mother

Esther Daviers

Father

William Hugh Davies

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Winstone Limited

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Territorial Force

2 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 21

2 August 1917

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 17/0032188, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 35.

Auckland Weekly News, 20 September 1917.

Anthony Byledbal, “Ernest Davies (1895-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/193