BORN HULL 1886. SON OF TOM DUNN & EMMA SERGEANT, OF 34A WITHAM, HULL. A PRINTER, COMPOSITOR (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED ED IN HULL ON 06/11/1915. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 20079 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 7 INCHES TALL, 134 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, “MANY BAD TEETH”.
HE ENLISTED AT FOLKESTONE, KENT. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 20079, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS 27634, TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS, 16/04/1916. DROWNED AT SEA ON THE TROOPSHIP, “LEASOWE CASTLE”, 27/05/1918, AGED 32. HE WAS REPORTED MISSING IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/07/1918. *
UNMARRIED. HIS PARENTS DECEASED. HE LEFT TWO SISTERS, ETHEL & LILLIAN AT 34A WITHAM, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, ETHEL MILES WHO EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1919.
On May 27th, 1918, the British liner LEASOWE CASTLE, built in 1917 by Cammell Laird & Co. and owned at the time of her loss by Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd., was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-51 (Ernst Kraftt), 104 miles W N W 1/2 W of Alexandria. 101 people lost their lives. The ship was carrying 2,900 troops en route from Alexandria to Marseilles in France. After about 90 minutes Leasowe had sunk with the loss of 101 lives, including Captain E.J. Holl. Many men spent hours in the water. Survivors were returned to Egpyt. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?147439
