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Kirkpatrick Family History
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 1885 - 1914 (28 years)
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| Name |
John Gunning Moore DUNLOP |
| Prefix |
2nd Lieut. |
| Suffix |
,of the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
| Born |
14 Nov 1885 |
Holywood, County Down, Ireland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Marital status |
Never Married |
| Died |
27 Aug 1914 |
Mons, France |
| Cause: Killed in Action |
| Buried |
Honnechy British Cemetery, Nord.France.Plot II. C. 9. |
| Person ID |
I21484 |
Kirkpatrick Family |
| Last Modified |
14 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- (Research):John had always taken a keen interest in military work. For the last few years he had spent nearly all his vacations with the Ulster Volunteers, and he would have been as ready to fight for Ulster as he was for his country.
At the outbreak of the war he volunteered at once, and was given a commission in the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, with whom he went to the front in August. After Mons he was reported missing ,and later confirmed Killed in Action.
His official obituary reads
JOHN GUNNING MOORE DUNLOP.
BORN NOVEMBER 14 Nov 1885, DIED AUGUST 27 Aug 1914.
JOHN GUNNING MOORE DUNLOP was born at Holywood, near Belfast, in the year 1885. His school was Charterhouse, whence he came to Gonville and Caius College as a Scholar in 1905. He gained first -class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, with Chemistry as his chief subject. After taking his degree he was awarded a research studentship by the College, where he remained in residence until the outbreak of the war, devoting himself to chemical research with considerable success, as shown by frequent publications in the Transactions of the Society between 1909 and 1914. During the earlier years of this period, he held the position of Junior Demonstrator in the University Chemical Laboratory, and later undertook some teaching work in College. He was one of the secretaries of the University Chemical Club, and a leading spirit in what may be called the social side of Chemistry. He had always taken a keen interest in military work. For the last few years he had spent nearly all his vacations with the Ulster Volunteers, and he would have been as ready to fight for Ulster as he was for his country. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered at once, and was given a commission in the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, with whom he went to the front in August.
After Mons he was reported missing. Hope that he might have been made prisoner was not abandoned until November 12th, when a message was received from the American Consul in Berlin stating that Dunlop was killed in action near Clary on August 27th. Three hundred and fifty men and officers of the regiment were cut off in the retreat. Only fifty succeeded in fighting their way through the enemy back to their division. Dunlop was one of those who fell.
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