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Charles Benjamin Tarrant

1891-1964

Portrait of Charles Benjamin Tarrant

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1594

About

Born

3 February 1891
Parent

Father

C. A. Tarrant
Residence

Hometown

Onehunga
Work

Occupation

Farmer
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

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 73

11 February 1964

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 95/0111962, Military Personnel File.

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

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-T1183.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Charles Benjamin Tarrant (1891-1964)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/821

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