New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1358

About

Born in New Zealand

28 June 1887

Parent

Mother

W. Jones

Residence

Hometown

Dunganville

Work

Occupation

Trucker

Employer

New Zealand Government Telegraph Department

Army Experience

Milton Rifle Volunteers

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 30

15 August 1917

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 W5541 75/0061915, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

Photograph

Otago Witness, 15 June 1918.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert James Jones (1887-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/431