New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37696

About

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