New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1518

About

Born in New Zealand

2 July 1884

Residence

Hometown

Stockton Mine Creek

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Westport Stockton Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 48

17 November 1932

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5544 11/0067564, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Leitch (1884-1932)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/482