New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1548

About

Born in New Zealand

2 August 1879

Residence

Hometown

Queenstown

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

John Thompson Eng. Mine owner

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Wakatihui Mounted Rifles

3 years in New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 41

3 September 1920

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 W5562 186/0134035, 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, “James Douglas Smith (1879-1920)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/786