Leslie Clark DUNN

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DUNN, Leslie Clark

Service Number:	641
Enlisted:	6 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1888
Home Town:	West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Cigar Maker
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 21 July 1916
Cemetery:	Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery I. D. 10
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

6 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 641, 31st Infantry Battalion
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 641, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 641, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 641, 31st Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fromelles.

Help us honour Leslie Clark Dunn's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

(Also known as David Clarke Leslie DUNN).

He was 28 and the son of Henry and Catherine Dunn; husband of Lillian May Dunn, of 142, Dudley Street, West Melbourne, Victoria.

A new headstone bearing his details will be dedicated to him at a ceremony on the 19th July 2019.He was previously commemorated on the V.C. Corner Australian Memorial; his name will be removed when the appropriate panel is next replaced.

Biography contributed by Warren Melling

Recovered from an unmarked mass grave in 2009, with 250 of his mates.

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