Private Percy William Dunbar

Army Number: 17517

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby’s) Regiment.

Born at Manchester. Son of Hugh and Rosa Dunbar, of 124=5 Whitford Road, Hulme Manchester. Husband of Vanda Ellis (Formerly Dunbar), of Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Hants. He was a fire insurance surveyor prior to enlisting September. 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France 6th March 1915 and was Killed in action, 12th March 1915, age 32, during the counter-attack by the Germans at Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.