New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

7th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

60431

About

Born

4 June 1897

Parents

Mother

Mary Kearns

Father

James Kearns

Settled in New Zealand

1899

Residence

Hometown

Hokitika

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

13th North Canterbury and Westland Regiment

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 66

29 April 1964

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 W5922 40/0061813 , Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.75, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 49.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Walter George Kearns (1897-1964)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/437