Joseph Walter Adams - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37638

About

Born in England

3 January 1888

Parent

Mother

Nancy Adams

Work

Occupation

Miner

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

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 3/0006811, Military Personnel File.

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

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Joseph Walter Adams (1888-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 16 December 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/4