New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1260

About

Born in Wales

17 September 1876

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Macky & Sons, Te Aroha

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Mary Jane Evans

Wanganui Navals

1 year in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 81

7 January 1958

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 80/0038476, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 2.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Evans (1876-1958)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/250