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Peter Alan Dunn was born in 1884, in Hornsea, one of six children born to George Dunn, a gardener, and his wife Isabella. In 1901 aged 17, he is living in Hornsea with his parents, employed as a shipping clerk, in 1911 he was a boarder in Harrogate, employed as a 'traveller : condiments'.
His medal card for the First World War shows he served in the 5th, 2nd, and 9th Battalions of the Yorkshire Regiment. He embarked for France on 18 Apr 1915, landing at Boulogne enroute for the Ypres Salient. A photograph appears in the Beverley Guardian in 1916 with the notation that Peter was wounded in July of that year, but no details are given. He survived and served throughout the war, being demobilised in March 1919. He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals and the 15 Star.
His younger brother, George Herbert, also served in the war but was killed in action in Sep 1916.
Peter married Evelyn M Haines, in Hull, daughter of John and Henrietta Haines, in 1915. They had a daughter, Kathleen, born 1924 in Hull. The 1939 Register shows him living in Peel Street, Hull, employed as a Commercial Traveller. He died in Holderness in 1961 at the age of 77
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