Company Sergeant Major Thomas Dunn

Army Number: 10245

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at <ickelover, Derbyshire. Son of Herbert William and Emma Dunn, of The Square, Mickleover, Derby; Husband of Florence Dunn, of 7, South Drive, New Town, Hebburn-On-Tyne. He was a groom before enlisting on 21st January 1907 at Derby; he served in India and was promoted to Corporal on 3rd October 1914. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was admitted to No. 2 General Hospital, Le Havre, on 18th January 1914, suffering from frostbite. He was transferred to England on H. S. Asturius, 190th January 1915. He was appointed Company Sergeant Major 10th March 1916. H returned to France on 30th April 1917 and was killed in action in the attack near Bellewaarde, Belgium. His brothers, Sergeant George Dunn, Grenadier Guards, and Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Dunn, also fell in the Great War,

Died: 31st July 1917, age 28.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

He is also commemorated on the All Saints’ Church War Memorial, Mickleover, Derbyshire.