Serjeant Reuel Dunn
The son of John and Susan Dunn, Reuel was born in 1893. At the outbreak of war, the family home was at 88 Harrington Road, Workington, Cumberland. Reuel was living in lodgings in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, near to his job as a ship's architect with the shipbuilders, Swan Hunter and Whitworth.
He enlisted in the Army Service Corps in 1915 and was sent to France as a motorcycle despatch rider in January 1916.
He transferred to general duties with a Transport Column but, bored with the routine, he successfully applied for another transfer, this time to the Royal Flying Corps.
After the usual period of training he was awarded his observers 'Wings', serving first with 70th Squadron in 1916 before being posted on to 43 Squadron.
Shot in the abdomen, Dunn was unconscious during most of the fight with von Richthofen, dying just six hours after his pilot had crash-landed their machine. He was 24 years of age.
Source:- Franks, Norman, Giblin, Hal and McCrery, Nigel, Under the guns of the Red Baron. The complete record of von Richthofen's victories and victimsLondon, Grub Street, 2007. ISBN 13:978190494376 (Information: Tony Harding)
