Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

14/08/1914

Date of Discharge

01/08/1919

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

30/06/1892

Place of Birth

Holywood, Northern Ireland

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

School(s) Attended

Geelong Grammar

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Dr. S. Dunlop (father), Charlton, Victoria

Final Rank

Major

Final Unit

11 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Mention in Despatches (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 4 October 1917, page 2622, position 82)

Dunlop entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in the first intake on 22 June 1911. He was a member of the guard of honour at the Canberra commencement ceremony on 12 March 1913. He graduated early from RMC, along with his classmates, on 14 August 1914 and was appointed as a Lieutenant with the 4th Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section, landing on Gallipoli on 16 May 1915. After the evacuation from Gallipoli Dunlop was promoted to the rank of Captain and appointed to the staff of the 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiment in France. While on leave in December 1916 in London he married Mary Paule Cunningham from Tuggeranong who was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment in England. He had been a frequent visitor to Tuggeranong while a cadet at RMC and he wrote to his future bride in 1914 just before his departure to the war; "I shall always connect my thoughts of Lanyon and Tuggeranong with the happiest days I spent at Duntroon."

Dunlop was promoted to Major in November 1917 and then attached to the 9th Brigade Headquarters as assistant Brigade Major. He served with the 9th Brigade during most of the major battles in 1918 including the 9th Brigade's defence of Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918 which stopped the German advance towards Amiens. In September 1918 he returned to Egypt and was attached to the 11th Light Horse Regiment. He returned to Australia in April 1918. Dunlop died in Sydney on 20 June 1966.

Description - height 5 feet 9½ inches, weight 150 pounds, chest 34-38 inches, Church of England.

Jennifer Horsfield, 'Mary Cunningham: An Australian Life', 2004
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
Bruce Moore, 'Lanyon Saga', 1982
AWM Honours & Awards
AWM Collections Records : A03621, A04149, A04160
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'The Honour Guard at the Canberra Commencement Ceremony', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial