New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37707

About

Born in Australia

19 August 1888

Parents

Mother

Fanny Rodgers

Father

William Rodgers

Settled in New Zealand

1913

Residence

Hometown

Huntly

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Taupiri Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

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 89/0099325, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Robert Rodgers (1888-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/732