Military service
Service number:
410935
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Battalion
Birth:
December 24, 1892
Dublin, Ireland
Enlistment:
March 8, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 39.
Additional information
Brother of Private Alfred Nunney, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment).
Commemorated on the Captain MacDowell and Private Nunney Plaque.
Additional citations
<P>An extract from the "London Gazette" Supplement (No. 31067) dated December 13, 1918, records the following:<P>
For most conspicuous bravery during the operations against the Drocourt-Queant line on Sept. 1st and 2nd, 1918. On Sept. 1st, when his battalion was in the vicinity of Vis-en-Artois, preparatory to the advance, the enemy laid down a heavy barrage and counter-attacked. Pte. Nunney, who was at this time at company headquarters, immediately on his own initiative proceeded through the barrage to the company outpost lines, going from post to post and encouraging the men by his own fearless example. The enemy were repulsed and a critical situation was saved. During the attack on Sept. 2nd, his dash continually placed him in advance of his companions, and his fearless example undoubtedly helped greatly to carry the company forward to its objectives.
Digital gallery of Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
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Photograph
Pte C.J.P. Nunney, V.C. -
Attestation Paper (front)
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Attestation Paper (back)
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War Diary
Extract from 38th Battalion War Diary for September 1918 -
Award Citation
Personal Information Sheet -
Service Records (front)
Casualty Form - Active Service -
Service Records
Casualty Form - Active Service -
Military Will
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Gravemarker
Tombstone in Aubigny communal cemetery near Arras, France. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Grave Marker
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Cenotaph
Barrie Military Park, Canadian Victoria Cross Recipients, Cenotaph -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstances of Death -
Memorial
Claude Nunney Memorial in Plaque in front of the Lancaster Royal Canadian Legion Branch 544 in Glengarry, Lancaster Township ON. Claude Nunney came to this area as a young immigrant, worked on a farm in Glengarry, and won the hearts of the people who knew him. -
Memorial
Claude Nunney Memorial in Plaque in front of the Lancaster Royal Canadian Legion Branch 544 in Glengarry, Lancaster Township ON. Claude Nunney came to this area as a British Home Child, and worked on a farm in Glengarry. His enlistment forms said he was born in Ireland, but he was actually born in Hastings, East Sussex. Unfortunately this information was not available until after the plaque was erected. -
Newspaper clipping
Claude Nunney VC DC MM 'Calls to honour St Leonards soldier from WW1 with New Blue Plaque' From the Hastings & St Leonards Observer_June 8 2018 -
Memorial
Claude Nunney VC DCM MM On July 19, 2017, what would have been Claude Nunney's 125th birthday, a Blue Plaque was erected at the home of his birth at 447 Bexhill Rd, St Leonards on Sea, a town and seaside resort in the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. In 1892, when Claude was born, the house originally carried the number 42 on Bexhill Road. Born Stephen Sargent Claude Nunney, in 1905, at age 12, he travelled to Canada as a ‘British Home Child’ with his brother Alfred,10, who also lost his life in WW1, a month before Claude. Their brother George, came to Canada one year earlier, at age 13. Claude Nunney is a significant and proud part of this town’s history. -
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Claude Nunney VC DCM MM On July 19, 2017, what would have been Claude Nunney's 125th birthday, a Blue Plaque was erected at the home of his birth at 447 Bexhill Rd, St Leonards on Sea, a town and seaside resort in the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. In 1892, when Claude was born, the house originally carried the number 42 on Bexhill Road. Born Stephen Sargent Claude Nunney, in 1905, at age 12, he travelled to Canada as a ‘British Home Child’ with his brother Alfred,10, who also lost his life in WW1, a month before Claude. Their brother George, came to Canada one year earlier, at age 13. Claude Nunney is a significant and proud part of this town’s history. -
Honour roll
Memorial plaque in front of the United Kingdom High Commission in Ottawa to commemorate Canadians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. -
Memorial
Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney British home child -
Memorial
Did you know? 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. -
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Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC home child -
38th Bn Badge
Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC home child -
Group Photo
Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC home child -
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Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC home child -
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Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC home child -
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#DYK seven brave Canadian soldiers all earned the Victoria Cross in France on 2 September 1918? The Victoria Cross is the highest award for military valour our service members can receive. 7 of 100 Canadians awarded this prestigious medal earned it on 2 September 1918. Dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” they earned them during the bitter fighting to break through the German’s Drocourt-Quéant Line in northern France during the First World War. These brave men were Lance Corporal William Metcalf, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrus Peck, Captain Bellenden Hutcheson, Sergeant Arthur Knight, Private Claude Nunney, Private Walter Rayfield and Private John Young. Photos: Department of National Defence -
Newspaper Clipping
#DYK seven brave Canadian soldiers all earned the Victoria Cross in France on 2 September 1918? The Victoria Cross is the highest award for military valour our service members can receive. 7 of 100 Canadians awarded this prestigious medal earned it on 2 September 1918. Dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” they earned them during the bitter fighting to break through the German’s Drocourt-Quéant Line in northern France during the First World War. These brave men were Lance Corporal William Metcalf, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrus Peck, Captain Bellenden Hutcheson, Sergeant Arthur Knight, Private Claude Nunney, Private Walter Rayfield and Private John Young. Photos: Department of National Defence -
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#DYK seven brave Canadian soldiers all earned the Victoria Cross in France on 2 September 1918? The Victoria Cross is the highest award for military valour our service members can receive. 7 of 100 Canadians awarded this prestigious medal earned it on 2 September 1918. Dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” they earned them during the bitter fighting to break through the German’s Drocourt-Quéant Line in northern France during the First World War. These brave men were Lance Corporal William Metcalf, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrus Peck, Captain Bellenden Hutcheson, Sergeant Arthur Knight, Private Claude Nunney, Private Walter Rayfield and Private John Young. Photos: Department of National Defence
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
Digital gallery of
Private Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 479 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.
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