Sergeant Walter Dunn

Army Number: 4232

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham. Son of William and Jemima Dunn, of Castleton Street, Meadows, Nottingham. Husband of Harriet M. Dunn, of 25, Abbott Street, Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham. He was a Coal Miner prior to enlisting on 24th March 1911. He was promoted Corporal 9th September 1914 and went to France on 11th November 1914. He was promoted Sergeant on 20th March 1915

He suffered shrapnel wounds to his left thigh on 9th August 1915 and was treated at 187 Field Ambulance before being transferred to No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Camieres, France, where he died of a gas infection in his wounds on 17th August 1915, at age 37.

Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row C. Grave 7.

Sergeant Walter Dunn is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Bartholomew’s Church Roll of Honour, which is housed at the Nottinghamshire Archives.