New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1376

About

Born in Scotland

16 April 1887

Residence

Hometown

Hamilton

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

J. Murray Contractor, Hamilton

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

For courageous devotion to duty and initiative in execution of his work. On 10th March 1918 he was detached to a battery as instructor in dug-out construction. At the commencement of a hostile attack on 22nd March, the message to recall him having miscarried, he stayed with the battery for five days and assisted in both working the gun and establishing a new position when the battery withdrew. On his own initiative he opened up a partly demolished dug-out, and so provided cover for the gun crew during a period of intense hostile shelling.

Death

Died at the age of 58

9 April 1946

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 88/0075255, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 3 September 1919, p. 11191.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Kenneth Bruce McLean (1887-1946)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/558