Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant C. N. I. Dunman, Middlesex Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), late Imperial Yeomanry and South African Constabulary, killed in action, Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July 1917

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (15340 Pte., 29th Coy. 9th Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (1330 Tpr., S.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with a replica 1914 Star, polished and worn (5) £200-250

Charles Norman Innes Dumnan was born in Shanghai, China on 10 January 1878. During 1899 he served with the 1st Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment. During the Boer War he served in the 29th (Denbighshire) Company, 9th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, being discharged on 3 March 1901 and then the South African Constabulary, being discharged on 25 January 1903. Employed as a Motor Lorry Driver, aged 36 years, he attested for the Army Service Corps at London on 8 August 1914. As an Acting Sergeant in the 2nd I.C.S.C., he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 September 1914. He served in France, September-November 1914 and May-November 1915. As a C.Q.M.S. with 32 Company A.S.C. he was discharged to a commission in the 15th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 6 December 1915. As a Lieutenant attached to the Machine Gun Corps, he was killed in action on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres, 31 July 1917, aged 40 years. He was buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Lieutenant Dunman was the son of Major Robert Dunman of “Amhurst”, 196 Upper Capstone Road, Bournemouth; and husband of Elsie Machen Dunman of “Westbourne”, 26 St. Paul’s Road, Preston, Paignton, Devon. Family sources state that he was killed emerging from his tank whilst serving with the Tank Corps. With a number of copied service papers, m.i.c. and other research. Entitled to a 1914 Star - family sources state that the original was lost in a fire.