Identity
Person No.
2999
Service No.
1645
Last Name
First Name
George William
Initials
G W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MIA 785
Missing in action
Cause of Death
Declared missing in action, on the 1st August 1916, fighting in Delville Wood
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On the Somme battlefield at Thiepval, overlooking the Ancre valley
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
3rd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 8
Notes
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.
Research notes
Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 4 C: named on photograph "3rd Regiment South African Infantry, photograph 8". Photograph: South African War Graves Project.
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