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Sergeant Alfred Dunne

records; history of medals
My great-grandfather, Alfred Dunne, came from a British army family, and he followed suit by joining the Irish Light Infantry in 1891. He enjoyed drinking and socialising with friends; while stationed in Hamilton, Scotland, with the Highland Light Infantry (1903-7), he greatly enjoyed Highland Saturday Nights, when the men dressed up and waxed their moustaches before heading to the canteen for a night of drinking. Before WWI, he was with the Worcestershires in India (the North-West Frontier) and the Second Boer War (the South African War). During WWI, he was in Ypres with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, having joined them on 4 November 1914. At the Second Battle of Ypres (1915), he is said to have jumped up and asked to be shot: everyone around him was shot, but not him. He joined the Royal Dublin Rifles after the Fusiliers were defeated. He is mentioned in dispatches by General Hickey, and received 1914-15 honours. The times he was on campaign, his wife Kitty would pawn their furniture and move in with her family, and then she would buy it back for when he came back to Ireland on leave. While on leave, he was tasked with reporting deaths to mourning families, which caused him distress. Though he was a professional soldier, he did not support the war, and he said of Irish-British involvement: We were foolish, and we were fooled. He was discharged from the British army on17 June 1920; he had trained as a fitter in the army, but worked various jobs in Dublin after the war. He had 4 daughters, and my grandmother received a pair of boots every year from the British army on account of his military service.

A small piece of paper which summarises his military record and lists his medals.
Alfred Dunne
Alfred Dunne's medal record
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Alfred Dunne's discharge document
Dublin
Official document
His discharge record from 17 June 1920
Warwick
Alfred Dunne's discharge from the Worcestershires Regiment
This records his discharge from the Worcestershires Regiment on 4 February 1922. It says that he was born in 1871, he is 5'3 (and 3/4), has a 'fresh' complexion, has two scars on his neck, and has grey eyes and brown hair. He is described as being 'hard-working and reliable'.
Hamilton, Scotland
Alfred Dunne's Certificate of Character
This is from 1903, when he is with the Highland Light Infantry in Hamilton, Scotland.
Alfred Dunne's discharge from Highland Regt

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Tara Kelly

DATE

- 1920

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eng

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7

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europeana19141918:agent/0e109555abe8e6ce713780e679fc2950

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eng
English

Country

Europe

DataProvider

Europeana 1914-1918

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Europeana 1914-1918

Year

1914
1920

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2020601_Ag_ErsterWeltkrieg_EU

Begin

1914
Thu Jan 01 00:19:32 CET 1914
Thu Jan 01 00:19:32 CET 1920
Tue Jan 01 00:19:32 CET 1901

End

1920
Thu Dec 31 00:19:32 CET 1914
Fri Dec 31 00:19:32 CET 1920
Sun Dec 31 01:00:00 CET 2000
Sun Dec 31 00:19:32 CET 1933

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mul

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Tara Kelly | europeana19141918:agent/0e109555abe8e6ce713780e679fc2950
Alfred Dunne | europeana19141918:agent/6261fe948af10446260f660a49c0c2d6

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2019-09-11T08:14:00.351Z
2019-09-11T08:14:00.324Z
2014-09-04 14:11:23 UTC
2014-09-04 14:17:12 UTC
2014-09-04 14:21:04 UTC
1920-06-17
2014-09-04 14:23:09 UTC
2014-09-04 14:29:08 UTC
1922-01-28
1922-02-04
2014-09-04 14:31:58 UTC
1903-05-29
2014-09-04 14:34:39 UTC
1907-11-26
2014-09-04 14:35:11 UTC

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