New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Lieutenant

Serial

4/1225

About

Born

29 December 1879

Parent

Father

Henry Hulbert Metcalfe

Work

Occupation

Civil Engineer

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 37

13 April 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 W5568 51/0136105, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5549 19/0080351, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

Photograph

Auckland Weekly News, 16 May 1917.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Henry Ernest Metcalfe (1879-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/576