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Baptized Joseph Adélard Dunn. Son of Jean-Baptiste Dunn (deceased in 1909) and Marie Cloutier (deceased in 1913), of Rivière-au-Renard. When he enlisted, he stated being born on 15 April 1895 and he named an uncle (Charles Dunn, of Rivière-au-Renard) as next of kin. Later, he changed this to one of his brothers, Odilon, of Nakusp, Kootenay West, British Columbia, who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Corps (service number 442372), from 1915 to 1919.
Enlisted in the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he embarked from Montreal, Quebec, on October 18, 1915, bound for Great Britain, where he arrived on the 28th in Plymouth, England. On February 29, 1916, he was assigned to the 23rd Battalion. On April 15, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and crossed over to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, on the 16th with the 23rd Battalion. On May 6, he joined his unit on the front line in the Zillebeke trench sector in Belgium. He was killed in action on May 28, 1918, during hand-to-hand combat in a German trench east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc, near Mercatel, France.
When he died, his battalion was in the front line trenches in Boisleux-Saint-Marc, Mercatel area.
Brother of Private Euchariste Dunn, service number 889856, who also died on July 28, 1917 at the battle of Liévin, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France while serving with the 22e Battalion.
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Page 401 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.
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