New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

47593

About

Born in New Zealand

3 May 1871

Parents

Mother

Mary Hickey

Father

John Hickey

Residence

Hometown

Karangahake

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 70

2 October 1941

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 118/0054287, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Hickey (1871-1941)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/382