New Zealand Tunnellers Wesbite - Home
Type a name to search for a Tunneller
Tunnellers

Arthur William Olsen

1883-1942

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

60414

About

Born in New Zealand

6 December 1883
Parent

Mother

Annie Olsen
Work

Occupation

Farmer

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers
→

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 58

16 June 1942

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5549 99/0088382, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Arthur William Olsen (1883-1942)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/650

History
Tunnellers
About Us
Artois University homepage
Institute for Strategic Research homepage