Francis Arthur Vercoe - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37523

About

Born in New Zealand

22 March 1877

Parents

Mother

Kitty Vercoe

Father

Samuel Vercoe

Residence

Hometown

Ohakune

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 41

19 November 1918

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 27/0117193, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 37.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Francis Arthur Vercoe (1877-1918)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 8 November 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/872