Name
Spottiswoode Robert Dunn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/06/1915
52
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Royal Scots
Cdg. 1st/4th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
T D
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 26 to 31.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not yet established
Pre War
Son of the late Robert Dunn; husband of Jane Dunn (nee Kirkwood), of 15, Durham Rd., Portobello, Edinburgh born in Pimlico. Of London. Joined Queen's Edinburgh Rifles as 2nd Lt., 1893; Capt. and Instructor of Musketry, 1899. Served in the South African War, 1901-2. Appointed Maj. in 4th Bn. Royal Scots and given the rank of Hon. Capt. in Army, 1902. Brigade Maj. of the 1st Lothian Inf. Bde. and became Hon. Lt. Col., 1906. Appointed Secretary of the Midlothian Association on the formation of the Territorial Force.
Wartime Service
Gazetted to the Command of 1st/4th Bn. Royal Scots in Jan., 1915.
