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Arthur James Wigley

1889-1923

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Lieutenant

Serial

4/1229

About

Born

23 May 1889
Parent

Mother

A. C. Wigley
Work

Occupation

Civil Engineer

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Military Cross ribbon

Military Cross
For conspicious gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of a mining party close to the enemy. At a most critical moment, when the discovery of our mines seemed certain owing to their being exposed by shell fire, he personally superintended the apparently impossible task of reconstruction and disguising our work, thus veiling our plans from the enemy when secrecy was of supreme importance.

Death

Died at the age of 34

11 July 1923

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 77/0122118, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 7291 W5614 56/D. 2/3894 0424648, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Arthur James Wigley (1889-1923)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/906

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