Detail victim

Name DUNN
Initials JC
First name JOHN CRAGG
Place of birth Ewloe Green Farm, Buckley
Country Chester, North Wales
Last residence Liverpool Road, Buckley
Family Son of Samuel and Mary Catherine Dunn, of "Hillside," Liverpool Rd., Buckley, Chester; oldest of eight children
Education Hawarden County School
Profession Assistant manager
Extra info Church bell ringer; Commemorated in St.-Matthew's Church, Buckley; www.flintshirewarmemorials.com;

Place & date of enlistment 8 October 1914
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 59th Light Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery
Division - Brigade 59th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 20th Division
National force B.E.F.
Attached or transferred from 3rd (reserve) - Bn. - Dorsetshire Regiment
Other data related to military career Originally served as a Private in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (n°16139) but received his Commission on 10th June 1915. He undertook his Officer Training in Oxford commencing on the 14th June 1915 and joined his Regiment, the Dorsetshire’s in Weymouth on 17th July 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant; to France October 1915; promoted Lieutenant February 1916; Att 59 Trench Mortar Bt

Wounded 24 March, near St.Eloi
Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds left side, penetrating abdomen, in n°10 CCS
Date of death 25 March 1916
Died at the age of 26
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 7