DUNN Ernest George 2/Lt

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Surname: DUNN;

Forename(s): Ernest George;

Initials: EG;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: Hackney;

Enlistment Date: 12-Aug-1915;

Resided in: Clapton;

Previous Battalion: 10 of;

Previous Regiment: Liverpool Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 101 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 10-Jun-1917;

Other Data: enlisted 12/8/1915 as 4341 28 London Regt. Served Home 12/8/1915 - 21/1/1916 - disch to Commsn - Kings Regt
Address: 15 Downs Rd, Clapton, E5
NOK: Mrs Charlotte Maria Dunn ( mother)
born at 72 Victoria Park Road, Hackney, London.
DUNN, Second Lieutenant, ERNEST GEORGE, 10th Battalion. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 10th June 1917. Age 19. Son of Mrs. C. M. Dunn, of 15, Downs Rd., Clapton, London. VIII. D. 50. (Orchard Dump Cemetery - France)

Born at 72a Victoria Park Rd, South Hackney, London. Son of Charlotte Maria Dunn, of Alder House, 15 Downs Rd., Clapton, London. Enlisted in London on 12/8/15 in 28 London Regt (Artists Rifles) as Private No 4341 on 12/8/15. Height 5' 11" with fair physical development. Discharged to a commission 21/1/16. Kia 10/6/17 - listed as 10 KLR attd 101 MGC Company. (Officers Papers - PRO )

Son of Mr and Mrs C M Dunn of Clapham, London. Volunteering first for the 28th London Regiment (Artist's Rifles), number 4341, in 1915, Dunn was commissioned into the Liverpool Scottish on 20 January 1916. Proceeding overseas later in the same year, he was eventually attached to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) with which regiment he was killed in action on 10 June 1917, still only nineteen years old. Photo [Bravest of Hearts]

Photo The Graphic 170728p78

1911 Census RG14PN1151 RG78PN38 RD11 SD5 ED12 SN542
Ernest George Dunn
Age: 13
Occupation : school boy
Address: The Parsonage, Weston Point, Cheshire - the dwelling had 6 rooms
Estimated Birth Year: 1898
Where born: unreadable
Father's Name: Ernest Edward Dunn, 42, agent, b. Dalston
Mother's Name: Charlotte Dunn, 40, b. unreadable
His parents had been married for 14 years - 1 of their 1 children had survived.

1901 Census Class: RG13; Piece: 211; Folio: 128; Page: 50.
Ernest Dunn
Age: 3
Address: 15 Downs Rd., Clapton, London
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Ernest Dunn, 32, clerk, b. Clapton, London
Mother's Name: Charlotte Dunn, 30, b. Clapton, London
Where born: Clapton, London;

Other Notes: DUNN, Second Lieutenant, E G, 10th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 10th June 1917. Age 19. Son of Mrs. C. M. Dunn, of 15, Downs Rd., Clapton, London. VIII. D. 50. Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gohelle - Pas De Calais, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO374/21297:;

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