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Robert James Jones

1887-1917

Portrait of Robert James Jones

Unit

Main Body

Section

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)

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    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    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

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