New Zealand Tunnellers

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

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 18

15 April 1916

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.

Courtesy of Tobin family.

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