New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1303

About

Born in New Zealand

11 May 1887

Parent

Mother

Hanna Neilson

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Overy, Retaruke

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His coolness and good judgement under heavy shell and machine-gun fire have been marked, and have had a fine effect on the men associated with him.

Death

Died at the age of 63

18 March 1951

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 71/0085558, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 21 October 1918, p. 12392.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Arthur Neilson (1887-1951)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/623