New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37559

About

Born in Scotland

15 April 1887

Parents

Mother

Isabella Hanton

Father

Alexander Hanton

Settled in New Zealand

1907

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

New Zealand Coal & Oil Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 60

2 December 1947

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 79/0050371, 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 Hanton (1887-1947)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/347