New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37670

About

Born

8 May 1890

Parent

Mother

Emily Wilson

Work

Occupation

Railroad Engineer & Surveyor

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 72

27 May 1962

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 W5562 202/0134792, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5562 125/0130941, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-W3520.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Alexander Wilson (1890-1962)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/920