New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37452

About

Born in Scotland

3 May 1894

Parents

Mother

Ann Fox Petrie

Father

William Petrie

Settled in New Zealand

1908

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

New Zealand Coal & Oil Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5553 120/0114437, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “James Petrie (1894-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/676