New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37453

About

Born in New Zealand

14 November 1878

Parents

Mother

Jane Porter

Father

James Porter

Residence

Hometown

Invercargill

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Waitua Mine

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 68

9 January 1947

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 33/0093794, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

Anthony Byledbal, “Douglas Porter (1878-1947)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/695