Sergeant Frederick Dunham

Army Number: 26776

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Joseph Dunham. He was a police constable living at Station Cottage, Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire. prior to enlisting 2nd June 1916 at Buxton, Derbyshire. He was appointee Lance Corporal 13th July 1916 promoted Corporal 31st July 1914, appointed Lance Sergeant 27th August 1915 and promoted >Sergeant 14th September 1915. He went to France 6th February 1916 and sustained gunshot wounds to hi left arm and Hand. 9th October 1916. He was treated at 49 Casualty clearing <Station, Contay and was transferred to hospital at Etaples, 10th October 1916. He was sent to England oh H,s Maheno 13th December 1916 and was then treated at Bradford War Hospital from 14th October 1916 until 10th November 1916. H e returned to >France 26th October 1917 and was killed in action whilst moving forward into positions at Equancourt.

Commemorated: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Panel 8.

He is also commemorated on St Lawrence s church war Memorial, Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire.