New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37542

About

Born in Ireland

21 January 1884

Parents

Mother

Mose McVeigh

Father

Hugh McVeigh

Settled in New Zealand

1909

Residence

Hometown

Otira

Work

Occupation

Miner

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 59

18 January 1944

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 102/0076628, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

Anthony Byledbal, “James McVeigh (1884-1944)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/567