New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37603

About

Born in England

13 April 1876

Parents

Mother

Mary Penrose

Father

James Penrose

Settled in New Zealand

1897

Residence

Hometown

Kumara

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

J. H. McMahon

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Royal Engineers

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 80

4 September 1956

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 14/0091898, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Penrose (1876-1956)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/670