New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1633

About

Born in New Zealand

4 June 1895

Parent

Father

J. Parsons

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Territorial Force

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 73

21 May 1969

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 120/0090464, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “James Leslie Parsons (1895-1969)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/660