New Zealand Tunnellers

Portrait of Samuel Edward Portman Vernon

Unit

Main Body (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)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

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