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Alfred Nunney

In memory of:

Private Alfred Nunney

August 10, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

219320

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)

Division:

44th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

October 7, 1894
County Sussex, United Kingdom

Enlistment:

September 13, 1915
Belleville, Ontario

Brother of Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).

Claude Nunney was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions against the Drocourt-Queant line.

Commemorated on Page 479 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

I. C. 6.

Location:

Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Honour roll– British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll

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    Honour roll – British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
  • Circumstances of death registers– Circumstances of Death

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    Circumstances of death registers – Circumstances of Death
  • Grave marker– Commonwealth War Grave Commission Headstone for Pte Alfred Nunney, 44th Btn. CEF at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, (Consolidation Burial 1921) Plot 1. C. 6. KIA 10 Aug 1918, aged 24 yrs, Battle of Amiens, Somme.

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    Grave marker – Commonwealth War Grave Commission Headstone for Pte Alfred Nunney, 44th Btn. CEF at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, (Consolidation Burial 1921) Plot 1. C. 6. KIA 10 Aug 1918, aged 24 yrs, Battle of Amiens, Somme.
  • Memorial– Private Claude Nunney VC DCM MM of 38th Ottawa Overseas Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and his brother Alfred were British Home Children emigrating at 12 and 13 from Hastings, Sussex through St George's Home in Hintonburg. Both had World War I related deaths in France at 24 and 26.

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    Memorial
    Memorial – Private Claude Nunney VC DCM MM of 38th Ottawa Overseas Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and his brother Alfred were British Home Children emigrating at 12 and 13 from Hastings, Sussex through St George's Home in Hintonburg. Both had World War I related deaths in France at 24 and 26.

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