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Reuben Robert Rooney

1887-1916

Portrait of Reuben Robert Rooney

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1543

About

Born in Australia

28 May 1887
Parent

Mother

Catherine Rooney
Residence

Hometown

Otira
Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 29

21 August 1916

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 92/0099676, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

Photograph

Auckland Weekly News, 28 September 1916.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Reuben Robert Rooney (1887-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/738

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