New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

40643

About

Born in New Zealand

17 April 1880

Parents

Mother

Elena Sanderson

Father

Benjamin Sanderson

Residence

Hometown

Kuaotunu

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

N. Inglio Mine Manager

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

J. Sanderson

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 56

29 January 1937

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 112/0101647, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “John Sanderson (1880-1937)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/755