New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37655

About

Born in Scotland

22 September 1877

Parents

Mother

Mary Smith

Father

George Smith

Settled in New Zealand

1898

Residence

Hometown

Arthurs Pass

Work

Occupation

Tunnel Foreman

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 67

11 December 1944

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 42/0106603, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Smith (1877-1944)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/784