John A V DUNN
Abt 1919 - 1944 (~ 24 years)-
Name John A V DUNN [1, 2] Birth Abt Sep 1919 Lambeth, London, England 
[1, 2] Gender Male SW Group 1 UKC 1881 N Death 30 Jun 1944 Italy [1, 3] - Died while serving with the British Army in Italy during WWII.
Burial Aft 30 Jun 1944 Assisi War Cemetery, Rivotorto, Assisi, Perugia, Italy [3] - Location Information
Grave Reference I, H, 3.
The War Cemetery forms part of the locality of Rivotorto in the Commune of Assisi, in the Province of Perugia.
From Rome, take the Autostrada A1, Rome-Milan. Come off at Orte and go along the SS3 bis to Perugia following the signs for Assisi. Take the road to Rivotorto and at a crossroads, from which a church is visible, turn left and the cemetery is about 500 metres down this road.
Cemetery address: Via Sacro Tugurio - 6080 Rivotorto di Assisi (PG) Umbria.
GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: 43.046561, Longitude: 12.609357
Visiting Information
The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible via main entrance. For further information and enquiries please contact enquiries@cwgc.org
Historical Information
On 3 September 1943 the Allies invaded the Italian mainland, the invasion coinciding with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side.
Progress through southern Italy was rapid despite stiff resistance, but the advance was checked for some months at the German winter defensive position known as the Gustav Line. The line eventually fell in May 1944 and as the Germans withdrew, Rome was taken by the Allies on 3 June.
Many of the burials in this cemetery date from June and July 1944, when the Germans were making their first attempts to stop the Allied advance north of Rome in this region. The site for the cemetery was selected in September 1944 and burials were brought in from the surrounding battlefields.
Assisi War Cemetery contains 945 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Person ID I1986 Southwest Last Modified 20 Dec 2016
Father Eric Ambrose DUNN, b. Est 1898, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Mother Winifred Marian MALLETT, b. Dec 1897, Lambeth, London, England d. 12 Mar 1993 (Age ~ 95 years) Marriage Abt Jun 1917 Lambeth, London, England Family ID F638 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Theodora Grace BURGESS, b. Est 1919, Umberleigh, Devon, England Marriage Abt Sep 1943 Plymouth, Devon, England [3, 4] - John and Theodora may have had a son called Vincent J Dunn, born in the Sep quarter of 1944 in Barnstaple (5b 582).
Family ID F785 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Birth - Abt Sep 1919 - Lambeth, London, England 
Marriage - Abt Sep 1943 - Plymouth, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S134] Lawson, Hazel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mallett, Robert, e-mail, Nov. 28, 2003, Family, Archibald Mallett, privately held by Robert Mallett, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., M1AG1979S148.
- [S596] "Civil Registration Index of England and Wales: 1837 - 1983", database, Free BMD Indexes, (http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ accessed Feb 21, 2016), Birth, John A V Dunn, registered Sep 1919, Lambeth, London, England, volume 1d, page 467, original record held by Office of National Statistics (ONS), General Register Office (GRO), UK.
- [S604] War Dead, database, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, (http://www.cwgc.org accessed Feb 21, 2016), John Ambrose Dunn, date of death June 30, 1944.
- [S605] "Civil Registration Index of England and Wales: 1837 - 1983", database, Free BMD Indexes, (http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ accessed Feb 21, 2016), Marriage, Theodora G Burgess & John A Dunn, registered Sep 1943, Plymouth, Devon, England, volume 5b, page 741, original record held by Office of National Statistics (ONS), General Register Office (GRO), UK.
- [S134] Lawson, Hazel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mallett, Robert, e-mail, Nov. 28, 2003, Family, Archibald Mallett, privately held by Robert Mallett, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., M1AG1979S148.
