Robert McCoy

1878-1953

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37696

Born in New Zealand

27 September 1878

Parents

Mother

Anna McCoy

Father

Robert McCoy

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Edith McCoy

New South Wales Artillery

Australia

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 75

13 October 1953

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 57/0072168, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert McCoy (1878-1953)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/536