New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1530

About

Born in Ireland

14 February 1876

Residence

Hometown

Dunedin

Work

Occupation

Tunneller

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Nellie McManus

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 74

22 April 1950

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 45/0070951, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Photograph

Barry Gustafson, Labour's Path to Political Independance. The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party 1900-19, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1980, p. 162.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “John Edward McManus (1876-1950)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/562