DUNN William Alexander

QER 1925 Farmer living at Woombye

DUNN, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
266, Trooper, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment./2nd Field Engineers.
b. ca 1886 Charleville, Qld.
Enlisted: 01.01.1915 Winton, Qld.
d. 29.07.1940 Nambour, Qld.
Next of Kin: Walter Francis Dunn –Brother; Mrs. Margaret Paton –Mother.

Shoeing smith William Alexander Dunn, son of Joseph Dunn, a miner (dec.) was a 29 year old farrier from Townsville, North Queensland. He came to Woombye to live and moved to Nambour after the war. He stood 5 feet 8 inches tall and had black hair and brown eyes.
Dunn served with the Light Horse Regiment overseas but suffered with rheumatism during his time in the Middle East. He was removed to the military hospital at Epsom in England in 1916 for treatment. Dunn’s appointment as shoeing smith for the Light Horse was cancelled owing to his long absence from the field but while in England he was able to complete a Veterinary Science course. He was transferred to the Field Engineers and sent back to Egypt but illness kept him in hospital much of the time.
On 27 November 1919 William Alexander Dunn and Mabel Mallinson were married in the Parish Church, Marfleet, Yorkshire, England. They returned to Australia where they bought a farm approximately 1 mile from Woombye on the Maroochydore Road. After the farm was sold they took up residence in Nambour with William working in the area of veterinary science and animal husbandry.
William Dunn was a member of the Masonic Lodge and in 1930 he was among the Officers named in a ceremony of Investature at Woombye Waverley Lodge. William Alexander Dunn died in Nambour General Hospital on 29 July 1940. His funeral moved from St. John's Church of England for the Nambour cemetery. Services at the church and graveside were conducted by the Rev. G.T. Hobbs.

Source: National Archives of Australia; Nambour Chronicle 1 August 1930 p.7; 2 August 1940.

From the Genealogy Sunshine Coast publication
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