New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1585

About

Born in New Zealand

12 June 1885

Parent

Mother

Mary A. Rafferty

Residence

Hometown

Onehunga

Work

Occupation

Road Foreman

Employer

Onehunga Borough Council

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 34

27 March 1920

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 52/0095612, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Walter Herbert Rafferty (1885-1920)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/710