New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37535

About

Born in New Zealand

16 January 1887

Parents

Mother

Mary Pennell

Father

John Pennell

Residence

Hometown

Karangahake

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 55

12 September 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 18805 W5550 14/0091842, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Herbert Walter Pennell (1887-1942)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/668