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Clipped Signature - William Lunn. - Cranston Military Prints

Clipped Signature - William Lunn.


Clipped Signature - William Lunn.

Born in 1896, he joined he Green Howards and took part in the Gallipoli campaign in World War One. Awarded the Military Medal, he was then in action in France at the battle of the Somme. He lost his leg after being accidentally shot whilst training and was discharged from the Army. He then became a lab assistant until retirement, and lived to at least the age of 100.

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Item Code : CLP2972Clipped Signature - William Lunn. - Editions Available
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Clipped Signature.
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Lunn, William

William Lunn MM (deceased)
William Lunn was born in Middlesborough on 15th December 1896. He joined the Green Howards as a regular soldier and took part in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. Amongst his duties was that of providing water for the whole battalion. He was in constant action and was decorated with the Military Medal. He returned to France with his regiment after the evacuation from Gallipoli and was again in action during the battle of the Somme. On 31st October 1916, whilst at a weapon training school in B
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In a war infamous for its military disasters, there are few greater debacles than Gallipoli. Ill-conceived, poorly-planned and dogged by misfortune, the offensive which was supposed to knock Turkey out of the Great War soon subsided into a bloody stalemate. The resulting loss of life at notorious places such as Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay are written large in military folklore. Gallipoli 1915 The Bloody Peninsula features fascinating rarely seen battle footage and haunting photographic images. With dramatised eye-witness accounts, footage of the beaches and coves of Gallipoli today, and expert comment and analysis, this programme tells the story of one of the crucial offensives of World War One. Narrated by Mike Leighton.
Scorched Earth - Gallipoli 1915		 Assault in the vicinity of Thiepval by the Ulster division-1st July 1916. The 11th Royal Irish Rifles, moving forward from the A line of trenches, and moving forward to attack the B line of trenches, the attacking infantry are preceded by Bombers - seen carryng grenades in green canvas buckets - who are engaged in throwing grenades in anticipation of the rifle company assault on the enemy trenches; an activity barely changed since the days of Marlborough. The rifle companies are armed with the Lee Enfield SMLE - a superb rifle, though expensive to make. The advance is made with bayonets fixed, as trench clearing involved numerous hand to hand confrontations and bayonet fights. The rifle companies are supported by two Lewis gun teams per company. Note that visible in the painting is a man carrying an orange painted steel marker, painted on one side only. The markers are to to indicate to British artillery observers as to the most forward positions taken by the British advance. Naturally, one does not present the orange side to the enemy!

The Great Folly of 1916 by Jason Askew. 		Although a very brown picture, it shows the Lancashire Fusiliers coming of the beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Gallipoli by Charles Dixon. 		Very few of the British soldiers made it through the barbed wire defences, and even fewer to the German trenches. By the end of the first day the British losses were 60,000 men.

The Battle of the Somme - At the German Trenches by Jason Askew.
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William Lunn MM (deceased)
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Clipped Signature.


Lunn, William
(William Lunn MM (deceased))

William Lunn was born in Middlesborough on 15th December 1896. He joined the Green Howards as a regular soldier and took part in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. Amongst his duties was that of providing water for the whole battalion. He was in constant action and was decorated with the Military Medal. He returned to France with his regiment after the evacuation from Gallipoli and was again in action during the battle of the Somme. On 31st October 1916, whilst at a weapon training school in Belgium, he was accidentally shot in the left leg which had to be amputated. He had a difficult period in hospital in England and was then discharged from the Army. After attending a Government Rehabilitation course he became a laboratory assistant at a college in London where he worked until retirement. Our sources show us that he was alive in 1997 at the age of 100, but we have no further information.

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