New Zealand Tunnellers Wesbite - Home
Type a name to search for a Tunneller
Tunnellers

George Alfred Harris

1893-1978

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1353

About

Born in New Zealand

6 April 1893
Parent

Father

A. Harris
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)

New Zealand Tunnellers
→

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 85

17 October 1978

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 86/0051099, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Alfred Harris (1893-1978)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/352

History
Tunnellers
About Us
Artois University homepage
Institute for Strategic Research homepage