New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37582

About

Born in New Zealand

15 July 1883

Parents

Mother

Mary Ann Gillan

Father

Thomas Gillan

Residence

Hometown

Awharoa

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Rising Sun Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Mary Ann Gillan

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 89

14 April 1973

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5539 22/0044676, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Alexander Gillan (1883-1973)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/312