New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1591

About

Born in England

28 January 1884

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Eva May Stanley

Army Experience

Royal Navy

5 years in the United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 79

23 April 1963

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 61/0108509, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William James Stanley (1884-1963)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/800