New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37534

About

Born in Australia

26 May 1888

Parents

Mother

Sarah Margaret

Father

Lewis Walker

Settled in New Zealand

1911

Residence

Hometown

Karangahake

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 84

17 October 1972

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 76/0118147, Military Personnel File.

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

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Walker (1888-1972)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/878