George Herbert Meder

1887-1917

Portrait of George Herbert Meder

Unit

Main Body

Section

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

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

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