New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

49563

About

Born in New Zealand

25 September 1896

Parents

Mother

Mary Phelan

Father

John Phelan

Residence

Hometown

Reefton

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Progress Mines Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 59

3 August 1956

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5550 21/0092590, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Thomas Phelan (1896-1956)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/678