Gerald Tuearsley Samson - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body

Rank

Driver

Serial

5/900

Corps

Army Service Corps

About

Born in England

20 October 1889

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Accountant

Employer

Neville Newcount

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 42

1 October 1932

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 111/0101540, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 8.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Gerald Tuearsley Samson (1889-1932)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2026 (2009), Accessed: 16 January 2026. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/753