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Albert Edward Blackwell

1888-1949

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1601

About

Born in New Zealand

13 October 1888
Parent

Father

D. J. Blackwell
Residence

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Contractor

Employer

Own
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 60

28 April 1949

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 89/0015352, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Albert Edward Blackwell (1888-1949)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/52

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