DUNN, Archibald Borland Harman
| Service Number: | 3747 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, 1899 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Leichhardt Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Leichhardt War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3747, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3747, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3747, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney |
Scouting Connection
Archibald was a Scout with the 1st Leichardt Troop, New South Wales and is named on the Scout Association's First World War Roll of Honour
https://heritage.scouts.org.uk/explore/scouting-in-the-first-world-war/
Submitted 21 January 2020 by David Oliver
Biography contributed by Peter Rankin
Archibald was only 17 years 3 months old at time of death. His family epitaph reads- HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR LIBERTY.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Archibald Dunn was only 16 years of age when he enlisted. His father 2082 Private Arthur William Dunn had enlisted in the same battalion a few months before and an older brother 2472 James Henry Dunn had enlisted a month prior before Archibald.
Archibald was killed in the trenches on 25 July 1916 during the battle of Pozieres when the battalion came under very heavy bombardment. He is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. Archibald’s father wrote that he was 17 years and 3 months of age at the time of his death. Archibald’s older brother, Private James Henry Dunn, had been killed in action at Bois Grenier, France, two months earlier.
His father, Arthur served at Lone Pine with the 3rd Battalion, at the age of 42, and somehow managed to survive two years in France before a Medical Board sent him home with ‘premature senility’ or more politely, just old age.
The following was printed in the Richmond River Herald 18 August 1916.
'A cable has been received by Mrs. A. W. Dunn from her husband, Pte. Arthur Dunn, of Leichhardt, conveying the. news of the death of their son, Private Archibald B. H. Dunn, who. has been killed in action in France. This is the second son Mrs. Dunn has lost during the war, Corporal Dunn, the other son, having been killed about two months ago. The father, Private Arthur Dunn, who was through the Lone Pine engagement, was with his son when Archibald died. The later was only 17 years of age.'
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