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Joseph George Tabb

1876-1938

Portrait of Joseph George Tabb

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1314

About

Born in New Zealand

24 May 1876
Residence

Hometown

Huntly
Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

Leo Edwards
Personal Life

Marital Status

Widower

Wife

Jane Tabb

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 62

22 August 1938

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 91/0111525, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-T1177.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Joseph George Tabb (1876-1938)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/819

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