New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1576

About

Born in Scotland

17 March 1879

Residence

Hometown

Tuparoa

Work

Occupation

Wagoner

Employer

T. S. Williams, Tuparoa, East Coast

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

2nd Garrison Artillery

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 70

28 May 1949

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 103/0088773, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “William Ormiston (1879-1949)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/652