Colin Adams

1894-1917

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1562

About

Born in New Zealand

14 June 1894
Parent

Father

Duncan Adams
Live

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 22

23 April 1917

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 3/0006741, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Colin Adams (1894-1917)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/3