Robert James Tippett - New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.3)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1476

About

Born in Australia

5 April 1885

Parent

Mother

Eliza Tippett

Residence

Hometown

Wellington

Work

Occupation

Labourer & Miner

Employer

Wellington City Council

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 W5557 4/0114820, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 4.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert James Tippett (1885-†?)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, 2025 (2009), Accessed: 16 December 2025. URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/847