Name: Fenwick Hiram Dunn Regimental Number: 482058 Rank: Private Battalion: 64th Battalion; 40th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Seaforth Highlanders Date of Birth: October 3, 1898 (actual) October 3, 1897 (on attestation) Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: August 27, 1915 Place of Enlistment: Sussex, New Brunswick Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 16 (actual age) Height: 5 feet, 8 inches Trade: Box Maker Marital Status: Single Religion: Methodist Next of Kin: Fenwick L Dunn (Father) Yarmouth, NS Military Service: Canada, England and France Date of Discharge: March 25, 1919 (On Demobilization) Place of Discharge: Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Death: June 29, 1980 Age: 82 Cemetery: Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Fenwick was the son of Fenwick Lamarchant Dunn (1853-1939) and Geneve Jane (Wade) Dunn (1856- 1943), the brother of William Howard G. Dunn (1877-1900), Clarissa Dunn (b. 1878), Lemerchant Wade Dunn (1882-1964), Adelbert Perrin Dunn (1885–1964), Madge T Dunn (1889-1984), Alfred Dunn (1891–1901), Clarence Dunn (1893-1895), and Arthur Augustus Dunn (1896-1966), and the husband of Evangeline Juliette (Nadeau) Dunn (1903-1982). Two of his brothers served during the First World War with Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Adelbert Perrin Dunn served with the 1st Siege Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, in Canada, England, and France, and Arthur Augustus Dunn served with the 1st Brigade, Canadian Garrison Artillery, and the 9th Siege Battery in Canada. Fenwick’s children were Clarissa Ruth Dunn (1922-1995), Ruth Dunn (1924-2009), Fenwick Hiram Dunn Jr. (1925-2010), John Robert Dunn (1927-2016), Alfred Lee Dunn (1928-2013), Mary Alita Dunn (1929-2009), George Eugene Dunn (1931-2016), and Helen Bernice Dunn (1936-1995). Fenwick sailed from Quebec to Europe on the SS Saxonia in October 1915. He had served with the 64th Battalion in Canada, the 40th Battalion in Canada and England, the 17th Reserve Battalion in England, the 49th Battalion in France, and the 21st Reserve Battalion in England. He was transferred from the 17th Battalion in the UK, to the 49th Battalion on January 5,1917, at Sandling, a hamlet to the north of the town of Maidstone, Kent, England, and joined his Battalion in the field in France on January 6, 1917. Fenwick served throughout 1917 with the 49th Battalion, and on Christmas Eve, December 24th, Fenwick was granted 14 days leave to England. While on leave, he was admitted to the Canadian Hospital at Etchinghill, Lyminge in Kent County, South East England on January 8, 1917, and was posted to the Alberta Regimental Depot at Bramshott. He returned to his unit in France but was readmitted to hospital June 7, 1918, at No. 1 Convalescent Depot at Boulogne with a skin infection, transferred to the No. 25 General Hospital at Hardelot in the Pas-de-Calais on June 9, 1918, and then to the Convalescent Camp at Écault just a few kilometers away on July 14, 1918. On August 5, 1918, he was transferred to the Rest Camp at St. Martins near Boulogne. Just over 2 weeks later, Fenwick was admitted at the No. 18 General Hospital at Camiers, Pas-de- Calais, on August 22, 1918, with ICT (inflamed connective tissue) of his left heel and wrist, transferred to Bexhill in East Sussex, England, on October 5, 1918, and transferred to Liverpool on September 1, 1918. He was discharged on October 14th. After fifteen days, on October 29, 1918, he was admitted with tonsillitis, and according to his records he appears to have spent time at both the No. 8 General Hospital at Edgbaston, also known as the Connaught Military Hospital in Aldershot, and in hospital in Birmingham. After the Armistice on November 11, 1918, Fenwick embarked the SS Cassandra on February 22, 1919, in the UK for return to Canada, and arrived at Saint John, New Brunswick on March 6, 1919, and was posted to a Casualty Company. He was discharged at Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 27, 1919. In 1930, Fenwick was employed as a driver (chauffeur) for a furniture company. In 1940, he worked as a shipping clerk, and in 1950, he was employed as a furniture finisher for a retail furniture store. Fenwick died at the age of 82 on June 29, 1980 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts and is interred at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn. ________________________________________ Fenwick’s four sons all served with the US Armed Forces. Fenwick Hiram Dunn Jr served in the US Marine Corps including at Okinawa (picture with elderly Japanese women), John Robert Dunn served in the US Navy in WWII and later with the Merchant Marine, Sergeant Alfred Lee Dunn served in the US Army during the Korean War, and was stationed in Alaska and abroad, and George Eugene Dunn served with the US Navy.