New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

2nd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

21394

About

Born

13 October 1892

Parent

Father

Thomas Porteous

Work

Occupation

Miner

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 85

29 January 1978

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 33/0093771, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5956 33/0359763, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.34, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 42.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Porteous (1892-1978)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/694