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George Everett Davies

1887-1917

Portrait of George Everett Davies

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1645

About

Born in New Zealand

6 December 1887
Residence

Hometown

Waihi
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

R. R. Davis

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 29

5 August 1917

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 20/0032420, Military Personnel File.

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

Photograph

Auckland Weekly News, 20 September 1917.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Everett Davies (1887-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/195

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