New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

7th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

59174

About

Born in New Zealand

8 January 1878

Parents

Mother

Mary Webb

Father

Walter Webb

Residence

Hometown

Tokomaru Bay

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Employer

R. Bimler, Tokomaru Bay

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Linwood Rifle Corps

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 53

8 August 1931

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 68/0121272, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.75, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 49.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William Laird Whitby (1878-1931)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/900