New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

39673

About

Born in Australia

3 January 1873

Parents

Mother

Arnelna Petterd

Father

W. F. Petterd

Settled in New Zealand

1915

Residence

Hometown

Swanson

Work

Occupation

Settler

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

M. H. Petterd

Army Experience

Castlecliff Rifles

2 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 68

22 January 1941

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 21/0092507, Military Personnel File.

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

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-P3460.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Richard Henry Petterd (1873-1941)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/677