New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37659

About

Born in New Zealand

28 August 1886

Parents

Mother

Agnes Thomson

Father

Adam Thomson

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Taratu Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Agnes Thomson

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

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 118/0114278, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

Anthony Byledbal, “William Thomson (1886-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/841