New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37645

About

Born in Scotland

14 April 1879

Parents

Mother

Mary Farmes

Father

Adam Farmes

Settled in New Zealand

1914

Residence

Hometown

Blackball

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 70

29 September 1949

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 86/0039005, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Erskine Farmes (1879-1949)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/256