MC GV contemporarily engraved to reverse Lieut C H Dunkley RE
Pair – Lieut C H Dunkley (MID leaf)
Defence Medal
War Medal.
Swing mounted as worn.
Condition GVF.
Charles Henry Dunkley was born in St Mary’s Vicarage, Borewood, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire in 1890.
He attested on 1st December 1914, joining the 9th Bn of the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He had previously served with the 4th Bn between 1st April 1903 and 31st March 1913.
He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant on 23rd July 1915 into the Royal Engineers. Promoted to Lieutenant on 1st July 1917, he ended the war as a Captain. For his services during the Great War, he was Mentioned in Despatches 11th December 1917 (London Gazette) and was awarded a Military Cross in the 1918 New Year Honour lists.
In the immediate post-war years, he served in Ireland.
During the Second World War, he was commissioned as a Major (TA) in the South Staffordshire Regiment.
Dunkley passed away in 1970.
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