DUNN, Peter Allan
(Service number 6/1438)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | 2nd Lieutenant |
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Birth
| Date | 2 October 1893 | Place of Birth | Christchurch |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Pleasant Point, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Farm labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Peter Allan DUNN (father), Pleasant Point, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | 2nd Reinforcements | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Canterbury Infantry Battalion | ||
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| Transport | Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | ||
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| Last Unit Served With | Canterbury Regiment | ||
Military Awards
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 4 May 1961 | Age | 67 years |
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| Place of Death | Auckland | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
Peter Allan Dunn was the younger son of Peter Allan Dunn and his wife Margaret Gibson née Allan. He was educated at Waimataitai, Washdyke and Pleasant Point schools. Corporal George Niall, writing from hospital at Plymouth, England, in 1915, notes: "A start was then made to carry in our wounded, whom we could hear moaning on top of the bank between two trenches. Peter Dunn, from the Point, and I, were working together as apair, bringing the wounded in. We were just carrying in the fourth man when I got struck with a bullet . . . ." (Timaru Herald, 15 September 1915). Peter's older brothe, William Robert Allan Dunn died in 1919 at Christchurch, a war death.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [01 January 2020]; Timaru Herald, 15 September 1915 (Papers Past) [03 March 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [01 January 2020]; Waikumete Cemetery headstone transcription [02 January 2020]
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