New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

48346

About

Born in Australia

5 February 1879

Parents

Mother

Alici McGuire

Father

Patrick McGuire

Settled in New Zealand

1905

Residence

Hometown

Taumarunui

Work

Occupation

Quartz & Coal Miner

Employer

Ellis & Burnand, Manunui

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 48

21 August 1927

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 72/0073659, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “James McGuire (1879-1927)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/544