Service Details
Name:
 BUNN
Given Name:
 GEORGE WILLIAM
Initials:
 G W
Service No:
 1645
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-01
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Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Declared missing in action, on the 1st August 1916, fighting in Delville Wood
Additional
Information:
Only son of Police Superintendent John Bunn, of 39, North St., March, Cambs, England. Wounded and missing 16-7-16, died 1-8-16, age 32. Apprenticed to Chatteris Engineering Works and went with machinery from the factory to work for the owners of the New Premier Mine in South Africa. In South Africa 11 years when war declared and enlisted in army.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 4 C.

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