New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1417

About

Born in Australia

28 July 1879

Parent

Mother

H. Dunshea Sr.

Residence

Hometown

Motu

Work

Occupation

Bushman

Employer

E. Richardson, Motu

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

1st Australian Horse

2 years in Australia

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 87

21 February 1967

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 59/0036355, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 4.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Dunshea (1879-1967)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/230