New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1461

About

Born

18 September 1887

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Wellington Meat Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Mary J. Porter

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 62

21 April 1950

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 34/0093820, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Porter (1887-1950)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/696