New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

55368

About

Born in New Zealand

5 January 1881

Parents

Mother

Maria Whitehead

Father

Mathias Whitehead

Residence

Hometown

Thames

Work

Occupation

Builder

Employer

W. Hales

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 83

27 August 1964

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5557 72/0121675, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Ernest Whitehead (1881-1964)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/905