Erskine Farmes

1879-1949

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
Live

Hometown

Blackball
Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

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 70

29 September 1949

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 86/0039005, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

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