Private George Albert Dunham
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Dunham,
George Albert
Date of birth: 1885-11-27
Place of birth: Peckham Surrey England
Next of kin: Mrs. Finch, St. Mary’s, Perth County, Ontario [no relation]
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address:
St. Mary’s, Perth County, Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Died of wounds
Buried:
Ecoivres Military Cemetery, V. C. 13.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 727074
Highest Rank:
Private
(58th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private, 58th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1917-03-06 to 1917-04-09
- Private (Army). 1915-11-20 to 1917-03-06
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: At No. 4 Canadian Field Ambulance
Commemoration location: http://ontariowarmemorials.blogspot.ca/2012/03/st-marys.html
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 65141
LAC ID:
369493
Service file: B2739-S039
Uploader's Notes: George Albert Dunham Father George Albert Dunham Mother Ellen Eliza Howard was addmited to a City of London Workhouse on 15 April 1888 because he was a Lost Child but he was given to W C Fegan of Fegan Home Children who shipped him to Canada on board the ship Dominion in 1899 to the Fegan Distributing Home in Toronto. In 1901 George is placed as a Domestic in the Household of John Morden in Nissoui Middlesex Ontario who say George was born on 15 November 1882 and had previously been working as a Farm Labourer. In 1911 George is working as a Servant(Domestic) in the household of Clara and George Arne of Nissouri Middlesex Ontario.On 20 November 1915 George Dunham joins the newly forming 110th Canadian Infantry Battalion for Overseas service and lies to make himself younger because he was born 27 Nov 1882 NOT 1885. This Unit sails for England on 31 October 1916 and Private Dunham joins the 8th Reserve Battalion until transferred to the Toronto 58th Canadian Infantry Battalion on 6 March 1917. Private George Albert Dunham a former Home Child dies of his Wounds at No 4 Canadian Field Ambulance Field Hospital during the night of 9 April 1917. Circumstances of Casualty gives his date of death as 9/10-4-17 or the next morning on 10 April 1917.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Private Army Canadian Infantry 110th Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry 58th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2017-03-07