Matthew Metcalfe

1882-1960

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1523

About

Born in England

9 February 1882
Residence

Hometown

Reefton
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Consolidated Gold Mining Company
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 78

9 April 1960

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 19/0080362, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Matthew Metcalfe (1882-1960)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/577