New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1493

About

Born in New Zealand

29 December 1876

Parent

Mother

Susan Blackburn

Residence

Hometown

Riverton

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Trails & Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

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 W5520 88/0015242, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Blackburn (1876-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/50