| The first Member of the NZ Expeditionary Force (NZEF) to die on the Western Front was not a victim of shellfire or an enemy bullet. Michael Tobin of Tauranga was sadly a victim of pneumonia.
Please note:
Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Remembering War basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Harley Couper), on May 05, 2014.
Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/remembering_war/images/show/7572 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.
Sometimes images contributed to Tauranga Memories by the community were uploaded by a library staff member. If this has resulted in your photographs being mis-attributed to a staff member, please let us know so we can correct this.The original Tauranga Memories site also sometimes collected the following (blank where empty):
First name: Michael
Surname: Tobin
Place of birth: Pukekohe, New Zealand
Date of birth: 5 June 1880
City: Tauranga, New Zealand
Year: 1916
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