New Zealand Tunnellers

Portrait of William James Henry Mitchell Shaw

Unit

2nd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

21429

About

Born in New Zealand

14 December 1875

Work

Occupation

Hotelkeeper

Employer

Own

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Lucy Shaw

Army Experience

Waimute Volunteers

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 62

30 September 1938

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 W5553 13/0103785, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.34, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 42.

Photograph

Wairarapa Archive, 15-154/160.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William James Henry Mitchell Shaw (1875-1938)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/767