New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1352

About

Born in Australia

14 February 1876

Residence

Hometown

Huntly

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Taupiri Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

Huntly Rifles

3 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 55

1 February 1932

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 75/0049954, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “George Hancock (1876-1932)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/343