Notts and Derby Badge
Derek Johnstone has provided the following:
James Edgar Dunn, the son of George and Mary Ann Dunn, was born in 1899 at Bedlington, Northumberland. His father, a colliery Deputy Overman, was born in Whittingham, Northumberland and his mother was born in Greenwich, London. In 1901 when James was aged one his family, which included brothers George and Robert, lived at Telephone Row, a colliery row close to the Bedlington Doctor Pit.
In 1911, James was 11 still at school and living with his parents at 15, Telephone Row, Bedlington. James’s brother George was a journeyman butcher with the Co-op and James is shown as being a butcher when he enlisted. Service Records for James are available and show he enlisted on 26th March 1917 and he was not married. On 20th April 1918 James who was in ‘C’ Company was reported missing and became a prisoner of war in Germany. He died from pneumonia at the 7th Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on 12th February 1919 at the young age of 19.
He is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02, B15.09, B15.19, B15.20 and B15.26 page 89
