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Denis Quinlan O'Brien

1874-1957

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1534

About

Born

28 February 1874
Work

Occupation

Miner
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

R. A. O'Brien

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 83

11 October 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 89/0087356, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5956 11/0360754, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Denis Quinlan O'Brien (1874-1957)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/637

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