New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Lance Corporal

Serial

48503

About

Born in New Zealand

31 May 1883

Parents

Mother

Sarah Jane Hill

Father

William Henry Hill

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Commercial Travellers Club

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Royal Navy

3 years in the United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 55

30 October 1938

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5541 4/0054850, 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 John Hill (1883-1938)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/385