Second Lieutenant Launcelot Lindsay Brook DUNLOP (1914)

11th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Born 19 April 1889 at Kendal, Cumbria
Killed in action 4 July 1916, aged 27
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Launcelot Dunlop was the second son of Arthur Brook Dunlop and Emily Smith, née Pollard, of The Howe, Troutbeck, Windermere.

He was educated at Rugby School, and after some years in business he came up to Merton early in 1914.

When war broke out he immediately offered himself for service and was given a commission in the Cheshire Regiment in March 1915. He went to the front in France in February 1916.

He took part in the attack on Vimy Ridge, and in the Battle of the Somme, in which he was killed in action at Thiepval, on 4 July 1916.

A brother officer wrote:

He was much loved and respected by the officers and men of his Battalion. I have often heard the Colonel and his Company Commander, both of whom were killed, express very high opinions of the work he did in the trenches. When we were at Vimy Ridge, he carried out several daring and useful patrols, for which he was highly commended by the Colonel. The men of his Platoon would have done anything for him, and he was untiring in looking after their welfare.