Harry Ernest Meyer - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1364

About

Born in England

5 November 1876

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

A. Meyer

Army Experience

Ohinemuri Rifles

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Mentioned in Dispatches

For efficient and meritorious service.

Death

Died at the age of 80

3 March 1957

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 20/0080451, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Harry Ernest Meyer (1876-1957)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 8 November 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/578