New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1539

About

Born in New Zealand

24 April 1886

Parent

Mother

C. Richardson

Residence

Hometown

Waiuta

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Consolidated Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Military Medal

For acts of gallantry in the field.

Death

Died at the age of 30

9 February 1917

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 73/0097711, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 27 October 1916, p. 10489.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William James Richardson (1886-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/722