James Forbes

1877-1952

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1506

Born in New Zealand

11 January 1877

Residence

Hometown

Orepuki

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Herman Sorensen, Orepuki

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Annie Forbes

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 74

9 January 1952

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 107/0041147, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Forbes (1877-1952)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/283