New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1285

About

Born

26 May 1876

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Otahuhu

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

E. H. Kelsey

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 71

1 June 1947

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 90/0063437, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Walter Herbert Kelsey (1876-1947)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/443