Private Frederick Bunn

Army Number: 17942 (formerly 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment)

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Blofield, Norfolk and lived at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. Son of Hannah Bunn, of Stanley Cottage, Little London, Spalding, Lincolnshire. He enlisted at Newark, Nottinghamshire and went to France 27th August 1915 with the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment). He was later transferred to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 27th April 1918, when German shellfire burst 9 British gas cylinders at a post in A Company lines, resulting in heavy gas poisoning. 

Served as Private John Brown 

Buried : Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Plot 3. Row D. Grave 4.

Private Frederick Bunn is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Long Sutton War Memorial, Lincolnshire.