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Richard Thomas Hales

1890-1951

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1615

About

Born in New Zealand

4 August 1890
Parent

Mother

W. Hales
Residence

Hometown

Waihi
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company
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 60

16 June 1951

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 66/0049045, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5562 136/0131508, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Richard Thomas Hales (1890-1951)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/337

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