New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37597

About

Born in England

24 September 1883

Parents

Mother

Mary Kirkby

Father

William Kirkby

Settled in New Zealand

1913

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Blackwater Mines Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

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 105/0064973, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Kirkby (1883-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/459