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Thomas John Albert Groves

1888-1925

Portrait of Thomas John Albert Groves

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1351

About

Born in New Zealand

14 February 1888
Parent

Father

J. H. Blackman
Residence

Hometown

Kihikihi
Work

Occupation

Warder

Employer

Kihikihi Mental Hospital
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 37

5 November 1925

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 58/0048264, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

Photograph

Courtesy of Groves family.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Thomas John Albert Groves (1888-1925)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/332

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