Bert Barnett

1891-1917

Portrait of Bert Barnett

Unit

Main Body

Rank

Driver

Serial

5/884

About

Born in New Zealand

31 December 1891
Parent

Mother

E. Barnett
Live

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Motor-driver

Employer

F. W. Wilson, Mountain Road, Off Jyber Pass, Auckland
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • Garrison Artillery Volunteers

    1 year in New Zealand

  • 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 25

    8 March 1917

    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 W5520 53/0011719, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

    Photograph

    Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1917.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Bert Barnett (1891-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/29