Harold Watkinson

1886-1964

Portrait of Harold Watkinson

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Lieutenant

Serial

4/1228

About

Born

1 May 1886
Parent

Mother

J. Watkinson
Work

Occupation

Civil Engineer

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Mentioned in Dispatches ribbon

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

Death

Died at the age of 78

28 May 1964

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 77/0119499, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5597 12/0363424, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 28 December 1917, p. 13575.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 2.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Harold Watkinson (1886-1964)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/887