New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

60434

About

Born in England

30 May 1879

Parents

Mother

Sarah Smith

Father

Thos Johnson Smith

Settled in New Zealand

1913

Residence

Hometown

Denniston

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Westport Coal Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 81

28 June 1960

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5553 47/0107107, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Thomas John Smith (1879-1960)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/790