DUNMAN Charles Norman Innes Lieut

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Surname: DUNMAN;

Forename(s): Charles Norman Innes;

Initials: CNI;

Rank: Lieut;

Previous Battalion: 15 of;

Previous Regiment: Middx Regt;

MGC Branch: Heavy Branch (Tanks);

MGC Unit: "A" Bn;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 31-Jul-1917;

Other Data: :born 10/1/1878 at Shanghai. Prior to the war a Motor Lorry Driver of 243 Kings Rd, Chelsea. NOK: Elsie Machen Dunman (nee Thomas).
Served 1899 1 VB Cheshire Regt. 1900-01 - 29 Coy, 9Bn IY, 1901 served 8 VB Kings Regt. 1901-03 - SA Constabulary, 1907 - Wiwatersrand Rifles. Vol 8/8/14 ASC and served to 23/9/14 at Home. 24/9/14- 29/11/14 BEF (1914 Star), 30/11/14 - 3/5/15 Home (having been admitted 6 C Hosp, France with frostbite - 29/11/14 on "Carisbrooke Castle" to UK. Embarked SS King Edward for France 4/5/15 and served to 24/11/15 9 Cav Bde to 6 Corps New Army to 317 MT Aux Lorry Coy. 24/11/15 - 30/11/15 Leave - discharged as RQMS ASC to Commsn (15 Middx Regt)-Military Character: Very Good. 17/3/17 transf to MGC HB "A" Bn in the field. 9/4/17 to be 2/Lt with seniority from 7/12/15. To forward area 12/5/17 - rejoined 19/5/17. Wounded at duty 20/6/17. Proceeded to Merlimont 14/7/17. Rejoined 21/7/17. KIA 31/7/17.
Married at Pretoria 10/12/01. Children: Helena Muriel b 22/2/1897, Charles Cecil Morgan b 13/1/1898 (West Ham), Shiela Gabrielle b 12/7/09 (Wandsworth)

Catalogue Lot 1317 Date of Auction: 28th March 2012
Sold for £920
Estimate: £200 - £250
Four: Lieutenant C. N. I. Dunman, Middlesex Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), late Imperial Yeomanry and South African Constabulary, killed in action, Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July 1917

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (15340 Pte., 29th Coy. 9th Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (1330 Tpr., S.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with a replica 1914 Star, polished and worn (5) £200-250
Footnote
Charles Norman Innes Dumnan was born in Shanghai, China on 10 January 1878. During 1899 he served with the 1st Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment. During the Boer War he served in the 29th (Denbighshire) Company, 9th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, being discharged on 3 March 1901 and then the South African Constabulary, being discharged on 25 January 1903. Employed as a Motor Lorry Driver, aged 36 years, he attested for the Army Service Corps at London on 8 August 1914. As an Acting Sergeant in the 2nd I.C.S.C., he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 September 1914. He served in France, September-November 1914 and May-November 1915. As a C.Q.M.S. with 32 Company A.S.C. he was discharged to a commission in the 15th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 6 December 1915. As a Lieutenant attached to the Machine Gun Corps, he was killed in action on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July 1917, aged 40 years. He was buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Lieutenant Dunman was the son of Major Robert Dunman of “Amhurst”, 196 Upper Capstone Road, Bournemouth; and husband of Elsie Machen Dunman of “Westbourne”, 26 St. Paul’s Road, Preston, Paignton, Devon. Family sources state that he was killed emerging from his tank whilst serving with the Tank Corps. With a number of copied service papers, m.i.c. and other research. Entitled to a 1914 Star - family sources state that the original was lost in a fire.;

Other Notes: DUNMAN, Lieutenant, C N I, 15th Bn. Middlesex Regiment attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 31st July 1917. Age 40. Son of Maj. Robert Dunman, of "Amhurst," 196, Upper Capstone Rd., Bournemouth; husband of Elsie Machen Dunman, of 26, St. Paul's Rd., Preston, Paignton, Devon. II. E. 2. Hooge Crater Cemetery - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/46291;

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