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Benjamin Herbert Poole

1884-1954

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1577

About

Born in New Zealand

24 June 1884
Parent

Mother

M. A. Poole
Residence

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Labourer
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 70

15 August 1954

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 32/0093635, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Benjamin Herbert Poole (1884-1954)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/690

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