DUNSTAN, Herbert Leslie
Service Number: | 5588 |
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Enlisted: | 25 March 1916, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Donald, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
Home Town: | Donald, Buloke, Victoria |
Schooling: | Donald State School, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Contractor |
Died: | Died of wounds, Dover Military Hospital, Dover, England, United Kingdom, 10 April 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Dover (St. James's) Cemetery, Kent England Plot M, Row L, Grave 7 - Rev. Fiddick Wesleyan officiated, |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Donald Shire Office Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
25 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5588, 21st Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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1 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 5588, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
25 Sep 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5588, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
25 Sep 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5588, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
17 Feb 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5588, Severe wound right leg and left foot | |
10 Apr 1917: | Involvement Private, 5588, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5588 awm_unit: 21st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-10 |
Private Herbert Leslie Dunstan
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 10th April........Private Herbert Leslie Dunstan was born at Donald, near Mildura, Victoria in 1887. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 25th March, 1916 as a 28 year old, single Contractor (Farmer).
Private Dunstan arrived in England on 10th November, 1916 for further training then was sent to France. He joined 21st Battalion at the Front on 17th January, 1917.
Private Dunstan was sent to Hospital on 20th January, 1917 with Influenza & returned to his Battalion on 31st January, 1917.
Private Dunstan was wounded in action in France on 12th February, 1917 with shrapnel wounds to right leg & left foot. He was invalided to England admitted to Military Hospital, Dover, Kent, England on 16th March, 1917 seriously ill after gunshot wounds to left foot (amputated) & right leg.
Private Herbert Leslie Dunstan died at 4.45 am on 10th April, 1917 & was buried in St. James Churchyard Cemetery, Dover, Kent, England where 7 other Australian WW1 Soldiers are buried.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/dover.html
Submitted 10 April 2020 by Evan Evans
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
"...5588 Private Herbert Leslie Dunstan, contractor, of Donald, Victoria. He enlisted in the 21st Battalion on 25 March 1916 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Shropshire on 25 September 1916. He was taken on strength of the 21st Battalion on the Western Front in France on 17 January 1917. Pte Dunstan was wounded in action on 12 February 1917 and evacuated initially to Calais and then to the Military Hospital, Dover, England, where he died of these wounds on 10 April 1917. He was aged 29 years." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Son of William and Catherine Dunstan and husband of Lillian May Dunstan
DUNSTAN.- In memory of my husband, Herbert Leslie Dunstan, who died of wounds at Military Hospital, Dover, on 10th April, 1917.
He died for his country.
(Inserted by his loving wife, Lillian M. Dunstan.)