New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Headquarters Staff)

Rank

Major

Serial

4/1325

About

Born in New Zealand

30 March 1882

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Soldier

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Nora Duigan

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Service Order

For distinguished service in the field.

Mentioned in Dispatches

For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty.

Death

Died at the age of 67

9 January 1950

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 54/0035876, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5901 3/0006294, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 1 June 1917, p. 5429.

Ibid., 4 June 1917, p. 5476.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “John Evelyn Duigan (1882-1950)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/225