Walter Olsen

1888-1955

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.3

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1459

About

Born in New Zealand

5 June 1888
Parent

Mother

Bamford
Residence

Hometown

Wanganui
Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Kaiara Quarry Company
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

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 67

26 July 1955

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 100/0088444, 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, “Walter Olsen (1888-1955)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/651