New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37682

About

Born in Australia

26 March 1881

Parents

Mother

Elizabeth Russell

Father

Peter Russell

Settled in New Zealand

1908

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Motorman

Employer

Auckland Electric Tramway Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Auckland Garrison Artillery Division

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 70

5 June 1951

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 104/0100826, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “George Russell (1881-1951)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/745