New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1481

About

Born in England

26 January 1881

Residence

Hometown

Palmerston North

Work

Occupation

Tunneller

Employer

Railway Buffet, Palmerston North

Personal Life

Marital Status

Separated

Wife

Nelly Brown

Kings Liverpool Regiment

5 years in the United Kingdom

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 65

20 July 1946

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 43/0118737, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

Anthony Byledbal, “John Walter (1881-1946)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/883