New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

43625

About

Born in England

20 March 1888

Parents

Mother

Mary Ann Gomm

Father

Thomas Gomm

Settled in New Zealand

1908

Residence

Hometown

Blackball

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Middlesex Volunteers

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 85

20 January 1974

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 W5539 32/0045651, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Arthur William Gomm (1888-1974)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/316