New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1468

About

Born in New Zealand

30 October 1893

Parent

Mother

Marry Sutton

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Storeman

Employer

Arcadia Hotel, Wellington

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 50

6 February 1944

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 87/0111156, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William John Sutton (1893-1944)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/815