New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37511

About

Born in Australia

3 September 1876

Parents

Mother

Berrie Cain

Father

John Samuel Cain

Settled in New Zealand

1881

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Railway Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 81

14 June 1958

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5530 30/0021473, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 35.

Anthony Byledbal, “Edward Cain (1876-1958)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/94