New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1519

About

Born in New Zealand

4 May 1882

Residence

Hometown

Christchurch

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Christchurch Tramway Board

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Margaret Ker

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 78

13 September 1960

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 94/0063878, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Baxter Ker (1882-1960)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/446