New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

60409

About

Born in Australia

18 March 1892

Parents

Mother

Millie Hayes

Father

Jim Hayes

Settled in New Zealand

1911

Residence

Hometown

Blackball

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 49

7 January 1942

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5539 101/0052559, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “George Hayes (1892-1942)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/367