New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1384

About

Born in England

14 July 1878

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

A. Lillian Pownceby

Army Experience

London Artillery Volunteer Corps

United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 38

14 September 1916

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 38/0064215, 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, “Claude Searle Pownceby (1878-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/698