New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37618

About

Born in New Zealand

17 December 1885

Parents

Mother

Sarah Dyer

Father

Cornclam Dyer

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Crahley Bros, Avondale

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Irene Ellen May Dyer

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 83

8 October 1969

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 61/0036544, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “William John Dyer (1885-1969)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/234