Regimental number | 2134 |
Place of birth | Young New South Wales |
School | Balgowlah Public School, West Manly, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Driver |
Address | Griffith Street, Manly, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 25 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Emily Dunn, Griffith Street, Manly, New South Wales |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 1st Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/18/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A63 Karoola on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 1st Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Wounded severely at Lone Pine; spent many months in hospital; then 1 year 5 months in France. Recommended for the DCM on easter Sunday 1917, but the name was never recorded. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Broodseinde, Passchendaele, Belgium |
Age at death | 27 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 28 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 28 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated in Manly West Cemetery, New South Wales. Headstone inscription reads: 'An Anzac'. Parents: John and Emily Jane (d. 9 November 1935, aged 75; bu. Manly West) DUNN, Edwin Street, Manly. Native of Young, New South Wales~ |
Family/military connections | Brother: 17187 Gunner Harry Walter DUNN MM, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, died of wounds, 4 July 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |