New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1449

About

Born in New Zealand

3 November 1887

Parent

Mother

Adam Meder

Residence

Hometown

Wanganui

Work

Occupation

Quarryman

Employer

F. Loveday, Wanganui

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

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 29

10 August 1917

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 W5549 14/0079866, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 4.

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-M784.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Herbert Meder (1887-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/572