New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body

Rank

Driver

Serial

5/885

About

Born in England

23 September 1887

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Motor-driver

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Ivy Bernasconi

Army Experience

3rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Military Medal

For bravery in the field.

Death

Died at the age of 43

14 August 1931

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 W5520 77/0014192, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 14 May 1919, p. 6062.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Paul Vincent Bernasconi (1887-1931)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/46