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  • Ewloe Green Farm, Buckley
  • Chester, North Wales
  • Liverpool Road, Buckley
  • Son of Samuel and Mary Catherine Dunn, of "Hillside," Liverpool Rd., Buckley, Chester; oldest of eight children
  • Hawarden County School
  • Assistant manager
  • Church bell ringer; Commemorated in St.-Matthew's Church, Buckley; www.flintshirewarmemorials.com;

Military service

  • 8 October 1914
  • Lieutenant
  • 59th Light Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery
  • 3rd (reserve) - Bn. - Dorsetshire Regiment
  • Originally served as a Private in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (n°16139) but received his Commission on 10th June 1915. He undertook his Officer Training in Oxford commencing on the 14th June 1915 and joined his Regiment, the Dorsetshire’s in Weymouth on 17th July 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant; to France October 1915; promoted Lieutenant February 1916; Att 59 Trench Mortar Bt

Death

  • 24 March, near St.Eloi
  • Died of shrapnel wounds left side, penetrating abdomen, in n°10 CCS
  • 26
  • V - A - 7

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