New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

55371

About

Born in Australia

23 November 1875

Parents

Mother

Mary Downs

Father

Edward Downs

Settled in New Zealand

1915

Residence

Hometown

Hikutaia

Work

Occupation

Farmer

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5537 48/0035267, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Christopher Downs (1875-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/215