Profile

DUNN, Francis Alexander
(Service number 40914)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	25/05/1893	Place of Birth	Ashburton, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	15 November 1916	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Box 43, Gore, New Zealand
Occupation	Engineer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Dunn (Father), Otamita, via Gore, New Zealand
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Fit for service

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	23rd Reinforcements Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company
Date	14 March 1917
Transport	Ruapehu
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Devonport England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	23 October 1918	Age	25
Place of Death	Le Cateau, France
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord France.
Memorial Reference	IV.C.11.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Georgina Christie Dunn, of Ardwick Street, Gore, Southland, New Zealand.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [4/09/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5537 0036200) [4/8/2013]; CWGC (8/9/2013);

External Links

Researched and Written by

Patrina Buchanan

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