Charles was born in Rowley and lived at Keepers Cottage, Risby Lane, opposite Halfpenny Gate Cottages, his family would have been neighbours with Albert Collinson.
His father, George Dunn was the gamekeeper to Stanley Wilson on the Risby Estate and he grew up there together with his mother, Margaret Elizabeth and brothers and sister. His grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Wood from Skidby. The 1911 census shows him living with his aunt, Emily Ann Thackeray at 99 Walkergate, Beverley, at that stage he was employed as a jobbing gardener. Charles was killed in action in France on 4th May 1918 aged 28, dying of wounds, south east of Ypres during the German offensive.
Charles had been wounded earlier in the year and had just returned to the front after a spell of leave at home. The 7th battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment was formed at Beverley on 16th September, 1914 as part of (Kitchener’s 2nd Army) K2 and came under orders of the 50th Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division. They landed in Boulogne in July 1915.
In 1918 when Charles died they were engaged in the 3rd Battles of the Somme.
He is buried in Engelebelmer Communal Cemetery extension, Albert, Somme, France.
