New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37601

About

Born in England

17 September 1886

Parents

Mother

Elizabeth Merton

Father

John Merton

Settled in New Zealand

1904

Residence

Hometown

Blackball

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 45

15 January 1932

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 19/0080316, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “Frederick Merton (1886-1932)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/575