BUGLER DUNN ON THE DUBLIN PUSILIERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 14, 5 April 1900, Page 4

BUGLER DU NN ON THE DUBL IN PUSIL IERS.

A Ilomr exchange of February 17 «ays that the Queen has commanded Bu»'t.r Dunn of the Ist Royal Dublin Fusiliers, to procepd to U^liorne. her Majesty bein^ desirous of seeing the lad and rwuin-^ hi-- photograph. Dunn received the Oueen s comm,m<l liy til<gr.iph through Lieutenant-General Sir liak( r-Knvscll. Licutcnant-Genenior or Poi l>moutb wlieie the bugler his hem *-:.;iyuu, r since ins di^chaige from Netley Hospital, atta- bed to a militia battalion stationed in the town. Dunn w.is the iiM '>n the Bnti-h -Me to be wounded at tin i r'^.n^ ot the Tugela. Ili.er lie insist* don rushing on with the Humr lux when Ins regim- nt tried to iorje the p,»sa<rc <>t the TuiM'la, tnnu^h mmy in n of the rt triment tri. d to keep him back. When I'iincv-s Henry of Bittenbi r^x and Fiineess Christian visit, d Xctlcy icci nt ly and asked the hid whit he would like the (jtuecn to do for him Dnim it plud — ' 1 hope 1) r M >|e"-ty will ->end me bi'-k to the f'Otit. Subsequent ly the l.id ->vd — ■ lam to ha\2 a medal and thice bars, be< ar-e 1 ha\c been in thuc engagements, and I --hall lie wry proud ot it. F.itivr lias only two bars to his medal. N r»ea'it Dunn, the hid -> father, is at thu front with his regimen ( the ILjyal Dublin Fu-ilier.-.