James King

1885-1916

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1511

Born in New Zealand

30 December 1885

Residence

Hometown

Waimata

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Canterbury Farmers Coop

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

J. King

Denniston Rifle Volunteers

13 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 30

15 August 1916

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 101/0064590, Military Personnel File.

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

Otago Witness, 13 September 1916.

Anthony Byledbal, “James King (1885-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/452