New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37565

About

Born in New Zealand

8 December 1889

Parents

Mother

Jessie Laird

Father

John Laird

Residence

Hometown

Waitotara via Wanganui

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

New Zealand Volunteers

3 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 84

8 June 1974

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 114/0065808, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “William Laird (1889-1974)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/463