New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37512

About

Born in England

29 August 1876

Residence

Hometown

Featherston

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Defence Force

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 78

19 April 1955

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 50/0035418, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Drane (1876-1955)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/220