New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1425

About

Born in New Zealand

9 August 1880

Parent

Father

Samuel Finch

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

South African War (1899-1902)

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 57

2 December 1937

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5515 18/0001786, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 4.

Anthony Byledbal, “Samuel Finch (1880-1937)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/265