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Military service
Service number:
219320
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
44th Bn.
Birth:
October 7, 1894
County Sussex, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 13, 1915
Belleville, Ontario
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 6.
Additional information
Brother of Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).
Claude Nunney was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions against the Drocourt-Queant line.
Digital gallery of Private Alfred Nunney
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Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstances of Death -
Grave marker
Commonwealth War Grave Commission Headstone for Pte Alfred Nunney, 44th Btn. CEF at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, (Consolidation Burial 1921) Plot 1. C. 6. KIA 10 Aug 1918, aged 24 yrs, Battle of Amiens, Somme. -
Memorial
Private Claude Nunney VC DCM MM of 38th Ottawa Overseas Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and his brother Alfred were British Home Children emigrating at 12 and 13 from Hastings, Sussex through St George's Home in Hintonburg. Both had World War I related deaths in France at 24 and 26.
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Nunney
FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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