Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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Updates for Corporal James Dunn
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17/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 24th November 1945:
17/10/2020 Over that sweet and hallowed plot
17/10/2020 May the heavenly winds blow softly
17/10/2020 Ever remembered by his loving brothers and sisters, aunt and uncle. Waterloo Terrace, Cookstown.
17/10/2020 On the hearts he left at home
17/10/2020 But his name is written in letters of gold
17/10/2020 In a hallowed grave unknown
17/10/2020 ‘He sleeps far away in a foreign land
17/10/2020 Though the sea divides his grave from us
17/10/2020
17/10/2020 One of God’s honoured dead.’
17/10/2020 Deeply regretted by his sorrowing father and step-mother. 17 St Jean’s Cottages, Cookstown.
17/10/2020 He fought and died for Britain
17/10/2020 ‘Far away from his native land
17/10/2020 DUNN – In loving memory of my dear son, Corporal James Dunn, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 23rd November 1944.
17/10/2020
17/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 24th November 1945:
17/10/2020 DUNN – In loving memory of my dear son, Corporal James Dunn, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 23rd November 1944.
17/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 24th November 1945:
17/10/2020 Always remembered by Lucy, William and children. Coagh Street, Cookstown.
17/10/2020 You died at your post.’
17/10/2020 You were a true soldier
17/10/2020 With a simple cross at his head
17/10/2020 Your life was your cost
17/10/2020 ‘You fought for your country
17/10/2020 He will never be forgotten.’
17/10/2020
17/10/2020 Ever remembered by his grandmother and grandfather. Waterloo Terrace, Cookstown.
17/10/2020 And your duty you have done.’
17/10/2020 For your country brave
17/10/2020 But a welcome up above for your life you gave
17/10/2020 ‘No welcome on earth for you dear Jim
17/10/2020 DUNN – In loving memory of Corporal James Dunn, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who served with the Eight Army, killed in action on 23rd November 1944 while in Western Europe.
17/10/2020
17/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 24th November 1945:
17/10/2020 DUNN – In loving memory of Corporal James Dunn, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who served with the Eight Army, killed in action on 23rd November 1944 while in Western Europe.
08/10/2020
08/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 16th June 1945:
08/10/2020 The Queen and I offer you our heartfelt sympathy in your great sorrow. We pray that the Empire’s gratitude for a life so nobly given in its service may bring you some measure of consolation. George. R.I.
08/10/2020 Mr Robert Dunn, of Waterloo Terrace, Cookstown, whose grandson, Corporal James Dunn, was reported killed on 21st November 1944, has received the following letter from the King:-
04/10/2020 Mr Robert Dunn, of Waterloo Terrace, Cookstown, has just received official intimation that his grandson, Corporal James Dunn, of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, previously reported as missing, was killed in action on 23rd November. He was in India for five years before the war broke out and was in action in Africa, Sicily and Italy, and in Belgium and Holland. His uncle Edward is in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers.
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04/10/2020 They lived at Waterloo Terrace, Cookstown.
04/10/2020 He was in India for five years before the war broke out and was in action in Africa, Sicily and Italy, and in Belgium and Holland.
04/10/2020 His uncle Edward served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers.
04/10/2020
04/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 9th June 1945:
26/08/2019
26/08/2019 The 5th Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry served at Arnhem as part of 214 Brigade, 43rd Wessex Division and had seen action from the 17th–27th September.
26/08/2019 When he was 10 years old his mother passed away and he was then looked after by his grandparents, Robert and Lucinda Dunn.
26/08/2019 James joined the army as a boy soldier in the 1930s.
26/08/2019 Known family: Robert Dunn, Margaret Dunn (nee McKeown), James Dunn (born about 1919), William Dunn.
26/08/2019 He then joined the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry.
26/08/2019 In 1942 he transferred to the Military Police and after a year returned to his old regiment, attached to the 1st Airborne in 1944.
26/08/2019 Corporal James Dunn was serving with the 5th Battalion of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry when he was killed in action near Nijmegen on 23rd November 1944. He was 25 years old.
26/08/2019 Corporal James Dunn has no known grave and is commemorated on Groesbeek Memorial in Gelderland, Holland. The Groesbeek Memorial stands within Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery.
26/08/2019 Corporal Dunn is commemorated locally on Cookstown Cenotaph.
26/08/2019 The CWGC record Corporal James Dunn as the grandson of Mr and Mrs Robert Dunn of Cookstown, County Tyrone.
26/08/2019
26/08/2019 James Dunn was the son of Robert & Margaret Dunn (nee McKeown). He was born about 1919.
26/08/2019 James Dunne was survived by his brother William Dunn, Cookstown.
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