New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1562

About

Born in New Zealand

14 June 1894

Parent

Father

Duncan Adams

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 22

23 April 1917

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 3/0006741, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

Anthony Byledbal, “Colin Adams (1894-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/3