New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1628

About

Born in New Zealand

16 July 1884

Parent

Father

C. Matthews

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 86

16 June 1971

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5549 9/0079331, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “Peter Matthews (1884-1971)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/523