George Henry Bates - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1242

About

Born in New Zealand

19 November 1876

Parent

Mother

Bates

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Labourer

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

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 89

14 August 1966

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 60/0012461, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 2.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “George Henry Bates (1876-1966)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 16 December 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/39