New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37558

About

Born in Scotland

26 December 1885

Parents

Mother

Marry Smith

Father

William Smith

Settled in New Zealand

1910

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

New Zealand Coal & Oil Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 75

18 June 1961

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 42/0106682, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Smith (1885-1961)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/787