New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37462

About

Born in Scotland

27 February 1893

Parents

Mother

Sarah Drysdale

Father

John Drysdale

Settled in New Zealand

1913

Residence

Hometown

Dunedin

Work

Occupation

Driver

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 24

5 May 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 52/0035680, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “John Drysdale (1893-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/224