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Samuel Edward Portman Vernon

1880-1916

Portrait of Samuel Edward Portman Vernon

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sergeant

Serial

4/1553

About

Born in New Zealand

19 August 1880
Residence

Hometown

Roxburgh
Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

James Craig, Roxburgh
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Margaret Vernon

Army Experience

  • Reefton Volunteers Rifles

    New Zealand

    • 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 35

    21 June 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 28/0117238, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

    Photograph

    Courtesy of Vernon family.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Samuel Edward Portman Vernon (1880-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/873

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