William Ernest Avery - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1688

About

Born in New Zealand

11 January 1880

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Waterside Worker

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Minnie Avery

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

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 W5520 36/0010054, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 6.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “William Ernest Avery (1880-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 16 December 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/18