Fusiliers had lost his older brother in August 1914, fighting with the 2 nd Battalion at

Le Cateau. Born in 1889 George had come to Summer Fields in January 1900 and gone

on to Cheltenham in 1904. In 1907 he attended the R.M.C. and gained a commission

into the RDF. At the outbreak of war he was stationed in Madras, India, but was rapidly

recalled and arrived back to Plymouth on December 21 st 1914. They were then attached

to the 86 th Brigade, 29 th Division and sent to Egypt (on March 16 th 1915), which was

the holding and training camp for the Gallipoli Campaign. They were only there a short

time before being sent to Mudros on the Greek Island of Lemnos, which was to be the

stepping off point for the attacks. Most of these soldiers had not seen any action yet. In

fact many of them had spent most of the war at sea, travelling from the subcontinent

and antipodes to England, then back out to the Mediterranean. The Dubliners were

involved in the landings at what was codenamed ‘V’ Beach where a variety of

amphibious transport was used. The Dubliners were sent ashore from HMS Clyde in

small open boats but the Turks were ready for them and they suffered murderous fire

both in their approach and when they got ashore.

It was here that Captain Dunlop died aged 26. He was the battalion’s machine gun

officer and the Battalion’s History, Blue Caps records the events form when they

landed;

They were met by a perfect tornado of fire. The machine-gun detachment worked

desperately to get their guns ashore but they were nearly all killed or wounded; both

the officers, Captain Dunlop and Lieutenant Corbet, were killed.

His body is buried in ‘V’ Beach Cemetery, but it is not known which grave his is so

he is commemorated on a special memorial there. Thus John Dunlop had died in

France in his first action and George had died in Turkey in his first.