New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Headquarters Staff)

Rank

Captain

Serial

4/1218

About

Born

20 December 1880

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Civil Engineer

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

H. Vickerman

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Service Order

For distinguished service in the field.

Order of the British Empire

For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France.

Mentioned in Dispatches

For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty during the period 26th February to midnight 20th-21st September 1917.

Mentioned in Dispatches

For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty during the period 16th September 1918 to 15th March 1919.

Died at the age of 79

14 October 1960

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 76/0117300, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5598 5/0362945, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 28 December 1917, p. 13575.

Ibid., 1 January 1918, p. 29.

Ibid., 3 June 1919, p. 6812.

Ibid., 11 July 1919, p. 8836.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

Anthony Byledbal, “Hugh Vickerman (1880-1960)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/874