Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal J. T. P. Dunn, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Somme, 1 July 1916

1914-15 Star (3-9035 L. Cpl. P. Dunn, W. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-9035 Cpl. P. Dunn, W. York. R.), note single initial ‘P.’, good very fine and better (3) £250-300

John Thomas Percy Dunn was killed in action on the First Day of the Somme, while serving in the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshires, attached 23rd Trench Mortar Battery. The son of William and Susannah Dunn of Lytton Street, South Shields, he was 20 years old, has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.