John Sinclair

1888-1929

Unit

Main Body

Section

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

Army Experience

  • Blackball Watch

    4 years in New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 41

    12 June 1929

    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 28/0105207, Military Personnel File.

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

    How to cite this page

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