Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant Alexander Dunkley, 12th, attached 9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, who died of wounds, Mesopotamia, 9 April 1916

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) minor correction to BWM; Memorial Plaque (Alexander Dunkley) extremely fine £350-400

Alexander Dunkley was born in East Plumstead on 5 January 1892. He was educated at Aske’s School, Hatcham, where in 1909 he won a Gold Medal for Science and Mathematics. He then went to University College London, 1910-12 where he gained a B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics; he was also a member of the University O.T.C. He then entered the teaching profession and when the war broke out was an Assistant Master at the High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, and an officer in the School Cadet Corps. Entering the Army, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. He embarked for Egypt and Mesopotamia on 7 December 1915, arriving at Port Said on 8 February 1915 and Basra on 11 March. Attached to the 9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, he served in the Kut Relief Force. In an attack on the Turks before Sanna-i-Yat on 9 April 1916, he was reported severely wounded and missing. At a Court of Inquiry held on 2 June 1917 it was concluded that 2nd Lieutenant Dunkley had died of wounds. Having no known grave, his name was commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. He was the son of Alfred and Fanny Isabel Dunkley of 71 Maxey Road, Plumstead and the husband of Emily Dunkley of 22 Swettenham Place, Plumstead. Sold with copied photograph and research