George Dunn was born in Tring on Friday, 19th December 1890 and was baptised on Wednesday, 4th February the following year along with his older sister Eliza. He was the third child and oldest son born to George Dunn and Alice Herridge who had five children in total who were: Eliza, Mary, George, John and Albert. George also had an older half-sister Ellen born before his mother met and married his father.

George’s father was a ‘Professional Cricketer and Groundsman’, a profession he was still pursuing at the age of 47 in 1911 when he worked at Elstow School in Kempston, Bedford.

George junior moved to the Apsley area some time after 1911 and whilst there met Olive Sears and in 1915 they were married at Redbourn near St Albans. George and Olive began married life at 10 Chapel Street in Hemel Hempstead and it was there, two years later, that thier daughter was born. Frances Georgina Dunn came into the world on the 23rd March 1917, but  tragically, George and little Frances never knew each other as he had been killed just over a month before his daughter was born.

George had joined the colours under the Derby Scheme in 1915 attesting in Hemel Hempstead and enlisting with the Hertfordshire Regiment. He went to Hertford to train with the 3rd/1st Battalion and six months later George was sent to France around May/June 1916. It is not known whether George was posted to the 1st or 2nd Battalion Hertfordshires, but what is clear is that he transferred to the 6th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment). 

The 6th Berkshire Regiment was under the orders of the 53rd Brigade in the 18th (Eastern) Division and it was in the vicinity of ‘Regina Trench’, approximately three miles south west of Bapaume in February 1917. On the morning of the 17th the 6th Berkshires attacked at 05:40 a.m. and despite a constant German barrage, heavy broken ground and utter darkness, the attack went to plan, and the final objectives were reached. However, the casualties incurred during the actions included George. The Battalion War Diary records casualties on the 17th February as follows: “O.R. Killed 19, O.R. Wounded or Missing 169”.

George was Killed in Action Saturday, 17th February 1917.

George is Remembered with Honour in Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France where he is interred in Grave VIII. F. 3.

He was 26 years old when he died.

George was entitled to the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal.