New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.2)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1385

About

Born in Australia

18 March 1888

Parent

Mother

P. A. Punch

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 58

3 July 1946

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 46/0095088, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “Gerald Bede Punch (1888-1946)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/704