Michael Tobin

1898-1916

Portrait of Michael Tobin

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1639

About

Born in New Zealand

8 February 1898
Residence

Hometown

Tauranga
Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 18

15 April 1916

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 W5557 4/0114887, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

Photograph

Courtesy of Tobin family.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Michael Tobin (1898-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/848