New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1460

About

Born in New Zealand

12 November 1893

Parent

Mother

D. O'Brien

Residence

Hometown

Hastings

Work

Occupation

Farrier

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

9th Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 83

8 July 1977

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 89/0087369, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Francis John O'Brien (1893-1977)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/638