New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1242

About

Born in New Zealand

19 November 1876

Parent

Mother

Bates

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 89

14 August 1966

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5520 60/0012461, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 2.

Anthony Byledbal, “George Henry Bates (1876-1966)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/39