Second Lieutenant Arthur DUNNAGE (1909)

5th (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Born 22 March 1890 in Dalhousie, India
Killed in action 1 September 1916, aged 26
Buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France. Also commemorated on the Gray’s Inn, London, and Woodbridge School war memorials.

Arthur Dunnage was the elder son of Colonel Arthur James Dunnage of Woodbridge, Suffolk. He married Evelyn Mary Lewis on 14 September 1915; his son, Arthur John Dunnage, was born on 28 January 1916.

He was educated at Fauconberge and Woodbridge Schools from 1906 to 1909, and represented the latter at football. He made a few appearances for Woodbridge Town FC during the 1908/09 season; he made his debut for the club aged 18 on 9 January 1909, playing at centre forward in a 4-0 victory over Ipswich St Matthews.

He matriculated at Merton in 1909, taking a BA in 1913.

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, whilst working as a schoolmaster in East Dulwich, he enlisted in the 18th (Service) Battalion (1st Public Schools) of the Royal Fusiliers, and was given a commission in the Special Reserve Rifle Brigade on 8 May 1915.

He went to the front in November 1915, and was killed leading the second line of his company into action at Delville Wood on 1 September 1916.