New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37712

About

Born in Scotland

24 November 1879

Parents

Mother

Mary Paterson

Father

George Paterson

Settled in New Zealand

1909

Residence

Hometown

Ngaruawahia

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Pukemiro Coal Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 75

7 November 1955

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5550 3/0090745, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Paterson (1879-1955)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/663