New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

40214

About

Born in New Zealand

27 January 1894

Parents

Mother

Annie Heenan

Father

Edward Heenan

Residence

Hometown

Collingwood

Work

Occupation

Cheesemaker

Employer

Collingwood Dairy Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

12th Nelson and Marlborough Regiment

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 76

16 September 1970

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 107/0053106, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Photograph

Otago Witness, 26 September 1917.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Edward Heenan (1894-1970)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/371