New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1632

About

Born in Australia

27 July 1892

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Miner

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

J. R. Norris

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. He displayed the greatest coolness and courage when he and his party were entombed in a gallery. There was a great risk of the workings being discovered, but he succeeded in getting his party dug out undetected.

Death

Died at the age of 72

25 May 1965

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 86/0087021, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5956 11/0360741, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 26 July 1917, p. 7663.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “John Richard Norris (1892-1965)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/634