Pearce Evans

1879-1954

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1345

About

Born in Australia

22 March 1879
Live

Hometown

Glen Massey
Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Waipa Collieries
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • Garrison Artillery

    12 years in New Zealand

  • Infantry

    4 years

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 75

    2 December 1954

    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 80/0038425, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Pearce Evans (1879-1954)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/249