New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

49521

About

Born in New Zealand

3 March 1890

Parents

Mother

Annie Murdoch

Father

Thomas Murdoch

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Jessie Murdoch

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 84

20 May 1974

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 61/0084571, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Murdoch (1890-1974)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/614