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Alexander Spence Wilson

1885-1974

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.4

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1559

About

Born in Scotland

21 January 1885
Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata
Work

Occupation

Coal-miner

Employer

Kaitangata Coal & Oil Company
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 89

27 September 1974

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 90/0123483, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Alexander Spence Wilson (1885-1974)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/917

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