New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37485

About

Born in Ireland

20 June 1891

Parents

Mother

Bridget Bolger

Father

Mark Bolger

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Auckland Electric Tramway Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Military Medal

For bravery in the field.

Died at the age of 32

13 November 1923

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 95/0015997, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 20 August 1919, p. 10586.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 35.

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-B2392.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Bolger (1891-1923)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/53