First World War Army Service Records

“Burnt Papers” in the Public Records Office

 

The poor condition of many of these war-damaged records is such that the information to be gleaned from them varies from record to record. Most contain some further information, but the following is the principal information of use to the genealogist:

 

Charles William Dundon

6th London Brigade RFA

Age: 17 years

Born: Carlisle

Job: GPO Telegraph Messenger

Address: 37 Tunstall Road, Brixton, London

 

Cornelius Dundon

Enlisted: February 1916

Age: 19 years, 11 Months

Job: Pawnbroker’s Assistant

Address: 70 Wellingston Road, Deptford, London

Father: Patrick Dundon, 168 Church Street, Deptford, London

 

Cyril Dundon

Royal Engineers

Enlisted: November 1916

Age: 17 years, 11 Months

Address: 14 Endcliffe Terrace, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Father: John Dundon, same address

 

Edward Dundon

Royal Scots

Enlisted: 22 August 1905 for 9 years, extended to 11 years in 1914

Born: Chelsea, Middlesex

Father: Garret Dundon, 9 Rawling Street, Chelsea, Middlesex

Mother: Drucilla Dundon, same address

Older brother: John Dundon, same address

Younger brother William Dundon, Royal Sussex Regiment

Killed in action: 4 July 1916

Cemetery: Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France

Grave reference: II.G.2

See also: William Dundon, below

 

Edward Dundon

Army Service Corps

Enlisted: 4 September 1879

Age: 21 years, 3 months

Job: Clerk

Born: Dromtarriff, County Cork, Ireland

 

 

Garret William Dundon

Dorchester Regiment

Enlisted: June 1905

Age: 18 years, 3 months

Job: Cartman

Born: Hoxton, Middlesex

 

George Henry Dundon (variously George Augustus Dundon)

7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment

Enlisted: 5 September 1914

Age: 27 years

Born: Barking, Essex

 

James Sidey Dundon (sic)

Royal Army Medical Corps

Enlisted: 1907

Age: 34 years, 9 months

Job: Cleaner

Address: 52 Canal Street, Port Dundas, Glasgow, Lanarkshire

 

John Dundon

Royal Artillery

Enlisted: 22 October 1907

Age: 18 years

Job: Labourer

Born: Limerick, Ireland

Father: deceased

Mother: Lizzie Dundon, 1 Clare Street, Limerick

Older Brother: Ned Dundon, 1 Clare Street, Limerick

 

John Dundon

1st Regiment, Dublin Fusiliers

Age: 20 years

Job: Labourer

Born: St Anne’s, County Cork, Ireland

 

John Dundon

Enlisted: 1914

Age: 34 years

Job: French polisher

Wife: Ellen Dundon (formerly Ellen Gibbons, spinster)

Daughter: Ellen Florence Dundon, born 2 January 1906

Son: William Joseph Dundon, born 20 January 1908

Son: John William Dundon, born 20 September 1900

Address: Shoreditch, Middlesex

 

 

 

 

Joseph Dundon

Age: 23 years, 3 months

Job: Casual dock labourer

Address: 10 Matthew Street, Bootle, Liverpool

Father: Joseph Dundon, same address

 

Peter Dundon

Unmarried

Job: Fruit hawker

Born: Coalbridge, Glasgow, Lanarkshire

 

Philip Dundon

Enlisted: 3 July 1872

Age: 20 years

Born: Buttevant, County Cork

 

Richard Dundon

Royal Field Artillery

Enlisted: 18 August 1916

Age: 19years, 3 months

Job: Warehouseman

Born: St Johns Wood, London

Adoptive mother: Rhoda Warman, 26 Harvey Street, Folkestone, Kent

Father: Patrick Dundon, 8 Burne Street, Edgware Road, Marylebone, London NW1

(A series of letters from Rhoda Warman accompany the file)

 

Thomas Dundon

Army Service Corps

Age 18 years, 2 months

Job: Van guard

Born: Wandsworth, London

 

William Dundon

Royal Sussex Regiment

Enlisted: 16 June 1905

Age: 14 years 11 months

Job: Musician (euphonium player)

Born: Chelsea, Middlesex

Height at enlistment: 4 feet 10 inches

Father: Garret Dundon, 9 Rawling Street, Chelsea, Middlesex

Older brother: John Dundon

Older brother: Edward Dundon

There are extensive courts martial and medical records for William Dundon

See also: Edward Dundon, above