Joseph McCallum

1893-1916

Portrait of Joseph McCallum

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1526

About

Born in Scotland

4 June 1893
Parent

Father

A. McCallum
Live

Hometown

Millerton
Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Westport Coal Company
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • 13th North Canterbury and Westland Regiment

    New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 23

    15 August 1916

    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 W5544 50/0071492, Military Personnel File.

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

    Photograph

    Auckland Weekly News, 13 September 1916.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Joseph McCallum (1893-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/530