Martin Roberts - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1586

About

Born in England

22 December 1875

Residence

Hometown

Point Chevalier

Work

Occupation

Bushman

Employer

James Munro Builder

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Amelia L. Roberts

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 67

26 May 1943

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 W5550 80/0098449, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 5.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Martin Roberts (1875-1943)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 16 December 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/727