Profile

DUNNE, Michael John
(Service number 19/68)

Aliases	DUNN at birth
First Rank		Last Rank

Birth

Date	10/10/1883	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Gleniti, Timaru
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	James DUNNE (father), Gleniti, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Relief Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Infantry
Date
Transport	Tahune
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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

Carpenter

Death

Date	15 April 1970	Age	86 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Mangaroa Cemetery, Hastings
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Michael John Dunne (born Dunn) was the son of James and Susannah Dunne (Dunn), of Timaru. Susannah died in 1893. L-Sgt. M. J. Dunne returned to Timaru with Draft 187 which brought a large number of soldiers home in early October 1918. Michael married Catherine Hertnon in 1920. Catherine died in 1954. Sometime after Michael married Mary Ellen. In the mid 1960s they moved to Hastings.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [[09 July 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (department of Internal Affairs); Cemetery records; Evening Post, 30 September 1918 (Papers Past) [16 August 2016]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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