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DUNN, Peter David
(Service number 8/781)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	17/09/1891	Place of Birth	Christchurch, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	8 March 1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Otekaieke, North Otago, New Zealand
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Alan Dunn (Brother), 5 Holmes Street, Waimate, 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	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkans (Gallipoli)
Service Medals	1914-1914 Star, 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

30 May 1915 - reported missing; 28 june 1917 - decalred missing, believed dead at a Court of Enquiry.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 August 1915	Age	24
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed In action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 15
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Mr And Mrs John Dunn of 5 Holmes St, Waimate NZ.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [4/09/2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. F886 2339 468707 196257) [4/8/2013]; CWGC (8/9/2013)

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Patrina Buchanan

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