New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1612

About

Born in England

8 October 1887

Parent

Father

John Fairclough

Residence

Hometown

Tauranga

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Ashton & Crump, Tauranga

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

2nd Border Regiment

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 76

12 October 1963

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 83/0038771, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

Anthony Byledbal, “Gordon Fairclough (1887-1963)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/253