New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

47523

About

Born in Scotland

6 September 1889

Parents

Mother

Margaret Finnie

Father

Samuel Finnie

Settled in New Zealand

1910

Residence

Hometown

Shag Point

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Shag Point Coal Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 51

4 January 1941

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 96/0040085, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “Thomas Finnie (1889-1941)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/268