New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Corporal

Serial

4/1429

About

Born in New Zealand

30 November 1880

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

H. Jones, Lambton Goods

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

1st Westland Rifles

3 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty and consistent good works over a lengthy period. When it was necessary for the safety of the line that machine-gun positions should be completed at once, he personally got out in the open and worked under shell fire the whole night. By his untiring energy and disregard of his personal safety he set a fine example to his men.

Death

Died at the age of 72

23 March 1953

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 96/0052040, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 3 September 1919, p. 11190.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Hatch (1880-1953)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/363