Ernest McQuillan

1885-1940

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1301

About

Born in New Zealand

23 September 1885
Live

Hometown

Paeroa
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Gold Extraction Company, Paeroa
Life

Marital Status

Married

Army Experience

  • Waikato Rifles

    4 years in New Zealand

  • 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 54

    5 July 1940

    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 W5544 100/0076425, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Ernest McQuillan (1885-1940)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/566