New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37459

About

Born in Scotland

17 April 1890

Parents

Mother

Ellen Robertson

Father

James Robertson

Settled in New Zealand

1912

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Kaitangata Coal & Oil Company

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 57

27 August 1947

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 83/0098762, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Maxwell Robertson (1890-1947)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/729