Timeline of Colin Adams - New Zealand Tunnellers

1915

6 October

Enlisted at the age of 21

1st Reinforcements

1915

11 October

Trained

Avondale, Auckland

1915

18 December

Transfer to England

Steamship Ruapehu

1916

3 February

Marched in to the Company Training Camp, Falmouth

1916

9 March

Embarked for France

1916

16 March

Three officers of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company seated and posing in a trench during World War I, wearing military uniforms and helmet.

The Company joined the underground warfare in the North of France

1916

25 July

Rejoined the Company from hospital

1916

8 September

Admitted to hospital

1916

16 November

Two New Zealand Tunnellers working underground during World War I; one man shovels rubble while the other digs into the chalk tunnel wall.

The Company began the operations to connect old underground quarries in Arras in order to accommodate thousands of soldiers for an upcoming battle

1916

17 November

Rejoined the Company

1917

9 April

British Offensive

Battle of Arras

Soldiers marching along a road carrying shovels, heading toward a section of the road that requires repair during World War I.

The Company was employed to rebuild a major road leading to the Front during the battle

1917

23 April

Wounded by shell-fire on Arras-Cambrai Road

Died of woundsNo.41 Casualty Clearing Station, Agnez-lès-Duisans

Buried

Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun

Grave reference

IV C 27

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “World War I Timeline of Colin Adams“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 8 November 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/3/wwi-timeline

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