"A noble hero true and brave, peacefully sleeps in a soldier's grave"
DUDLEY, Lionel Ralph
DUFFIELD, Frank
DUGGAN, Alfred
DUNCAN, Lennox George
DUNFORD, Ernest Robert Alfred
DUNHAM, Charles Whitlaw
DUNN, Arthur Sylvester aka PALMER, J
DUNNE, Ambrose Sylvester
Early on 9 August the Turks made a determined counter-attack on a newly captured trench held by Lieutenant F. H. Tubb and ten men. Two men were told to remain on the floor of the trench to catch and throw back enemy bombs or to smother their explosions with overcoats; both were soon mutilated. Tubb, with Corporal Dunstan, Corporal A. S. Burton and six others, kept firing over the parapet. Several bombs burst simultaneously in the trench killing or wounding five men. Tubb continued to fight, supported only by Dunstan and Burton until a violent explosion blew down the barricade. Tubb drove the Turks off and Dunstan and Burton were rebuilding it when a bomb burst between them, killing Burton and temporarily blinding Dunstan. He was invalided to Australia and discharged on 1 February 1916 having been twice mentioned in dispatches. He suffered with temporary blindness for almost a year.
He then rejoined the Citizen Forces, serving in the rank of lieutenant as area officer, Ballarat, and was an acting brigade Major, 18th Infantry Brigade. His army career concluded when he transferred to the 6th Infantry Battalion in Melbourne in 1921, the unattached list in 1923 and the reserve officer's list in 1928. On 10 June 1916 he was presented with the V.C. by the Governor-General on the steps of Parliament House, Melbourne. This was the occasion for an outburst of exceptional public fervour. ‘A reserved man disliking fuss', Dunstan found it a great ordeal.
Dunstan died suddenly of coronary vascular disease on 2 March 1957 and was cremated after a funeral service at Christ Church, South Yarra, attended by over 800 people and 7 VC winners.
In 1995 a Memorial to Dunstan was erected in Sturt St, Ballarat, Victoria. The "Dunstan VC Club" at Puckapunyal named in his honour
Courtesy of Joy Dalgleish
Sources Western Australian 11 Nov 2010
www.awm.gov.au
H06201
Wikipedia
He then rejoined the Citizen Forces, serving in the rank of lieutenant as area officer, Ballarat, and was an acting brigade Major, 18th Infantry Brigade. His army career concluded when he transferred to the 6th Infantry Battalion in Melbourne in 1921, the unattached list in 1923 and the reserve officer's list in 1928. On 10 June 1916 he was presented with the V.C. by the Governor-General on the steps of Parliament House, Melbourne. This was the occasion for an outburst of exceptional public fervour. ‘A reserved man disliking fuss', Dunstan found it a great ordeal.
Dunstan died suddenly of coronary vascular disease on 2 March 1957 and was cremated after a funeral service at Christ Church, South Yarra, attended by over 800 people and 7 VC winners.
In 1995 a Memorial to Dunstan was erected in Sturt St, Ballarat, Victoria. The "Dunstan VC Club" at Puckapunyal named in his honour
Courtesy of Joy Dalgleish
Sources Western Australian 11 Nov 2010
www.awm.gov.au
H06201
Wikipedia