DUNN, Allan
| Service Number: | 242 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Enoggera, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gympie, Queensland, 9 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Bald Hills, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sawyer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sydney, New South Wales, 17 March 1960, aged 66 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 242, Enoggera, Queensland | |
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| 24 Sep 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 242, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane | |
| 24 Sep 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 242, 9th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 242, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 20 Oct 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
| 26 Feb 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 242, 9th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Trevor
'Kneeling in the centre front (the seven volunteers from Brisbane Excelsior Band) is Alan ‘Bluey’ Dunn with his cornet. 21 years old, with grey eyes and auburn hair, he worked as a sawyer. Records indicate that he was not wounded at Gallipoli but became seriously ill with gastroenteritis and was evacuated on 29th July 1915. He was hospitalised in Alexandria and sent to England, being admitted to hospital in Cardiff on the 5th of October. He seems to have spent some time attached to headquarters in England and was not sent to join his regiment in France until August 1916. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal in October 1917 and to Corporal on 26 February 1918 and returned to Australia in October 1918.' SOURCE (blogs.slq.qld.gov.au)
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