New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.4)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1546

About

Born in New Zealand

5 August 1875

Parent

Mother

J. Smith

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Kaitangata Coal & Oil Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

Army Experience

Kaitangata Rifles

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 59

21 February 1935

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 48/0107267, 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, “William John Smith (1875-1935)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/791