New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

6/1729

About

Born in New Zealand

2 August 1885

Parent

Mother

R. Straight

Residence

Hometown

Reefton

Work

Occupation

Bushman

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 45

26 December 1930

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 77/0110141, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 37.

Anthony Byledbal, “Richard Straight (1885-1930)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/809