DUNN, Helier Leslie Cecil
| Service Number: | 6538 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 January 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia, 12 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Merimbula, Bega Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Chauffeur |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 15 November 1917, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Etaples Military Cemetery Plot XXX, Row L, Grave No. 10. WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY REST IN PEACE. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Merimbula War Memorial, Pambula District Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6538, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 6538, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 6538, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 23 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Helier Leslie Cecil Dunn was the son of James Leonard Dunn and Elizabeth Dunn, of Merimbula, New South Wales.
He was the younger brother of 710 Trooper George Dunn 6th Australian Light Horse, who had died of pneumonia on Lemnos Island on 3 June 1915, aged 23.
Helier had left Sydney during February 1917 and arrived in England during April 1917. After undergoing machine gun training in England, he was sent to the 21st Machine Gun Company in Belgium on 23 October 1917.
He was wounded in action, Belgium, only a week later, and was sent to the No 7 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, with shrapnel wounds to the back. He died of his wounds two weeks later on 15 November 1917.
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