New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Lieutenant

Serial

4/1228

About

Born

1 May 1886

Parent

Mother

J. Watkinson

Work

Occupation

Civil Engineer

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Mentioned in Dispatches

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

Died at the age of 78

28 May 1964

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.

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