New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37704

About

Born in New Zealand

12 March 1886

Parents

Mother

Agnes Wells

Father

William Wells

Residence

Hometown

Paeroa

Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

H. Adams, Komata

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 64

2 March 1951

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 62/0120630, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 40.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “John Frederick Wells (1886-1951)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/896