New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37470

About

Born

14 April 1877

Parents

Mother

Sarah Laney

Father

Charles Laney

Settled in New Zealand

1901

Residence

Hometown

Murchison

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

13th Aldershot Light Infantry

5 years in the United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 63

7 June 1940

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 117/0066122, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

Anthony Byledbal, “Victor Laney (1877-1940)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/466