Colin McMillan has provided the following:
In 1911 Geo Dunn (as shown on the census form), lived with his family at 9 Manchester Street. He was 17, single and worked as a railway porter. He was the oldest child of John and Margaret Dunn and had a sister and four brothers, the youngest of whom was 11 months old.
He later married.
He was Sergeant 290049 of “A” Company of the 1st/7th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was 22 when he died on 14th November 1916 and is buried in the Bailleul East Road Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy.
When the CWGC were putting their records together his widow, May Wood (formerly Dunn), was living at 83 George Street, Galt, Ontario, Canada.
George Dunn is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01, M17.09 and M17.29 and in the Battalion History
