New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1544

About

Born in Scotland

26 March 1888

Residence

Hometown

Blackball

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Blackball Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Mary E. Sinclair

Blackball Watch

4 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 41

12 June 1929

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 28/0105207, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Sinclair (1888-1929)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/773