New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37611

About

Born in Scotland

20 December 1872

Parents

Mother

Ann Rourke

Father

John Rourke

Settled in New Zealand

1911

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

New Zealand Coal & Oil Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 48

7 October 1921

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 98/0100232, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Rourke (1872-1921)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/742