New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Corporal

Serial

4/1450

About

Born in New Zealand

1 October 1875

Parent

Father

James Murphy

Residence

Hometown

Matawai

Work

Occupation

Quarry Foreman

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

South African War (1899-1902)

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 41

25 January 1917

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 62/0084674, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 4.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Murphy (1875-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/615