Gerald Bede Punch

1888-1946

Unit

Main Body

Section

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

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 58

3 July 1946

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 46/0095088, 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, “Gerald Bede Punch (1888-1946)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/704