New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

43082

About

Born in New Zealand

27 July 1892

Parents

Mother

Annie Roycroft

Father

William Frederick Roycroft

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Lottie Roycroft

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 66

2 May 1959

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 101/0100510, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “James Lewis Roycroft (1892-1959)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/744