New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1695

About

Born in Australia

31 December 1885

Parent

Mother

Alice Poppleton

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Painter

Employer

New Zealand Government

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

National Reserve

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 92

25 July 1978

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 33/0093729, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Philip Poppleton (1885-1978)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/692