New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37545

About

Born in England

24 February 1875

Parents

Mother

Alice Russell

Father

James Russell

Settled in New Zealand

1913

Residence

Hometown

Waimangaroa

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Annie Russell

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 105/0100955, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 35.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Russell (1875-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/748