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Chaplin 4th Class

Sidney Dunstan

Service number Unknown
Military unit Army Chaplains' Department
Address 76 Kingstone Road, Oxford.
Date of birth 12 Mar 1884
Date of death 16 Jul 1918 (34 years old)
Place of birth King's William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Employment, education or hobbies

He came to train at Dorchester Missionary College in Oxford from 1904 and was ordained as a deacon in 1908 and then a as a priest in 1909. He was curate at St Mary's Cable Street, and then at St George-in-the-East, London. He went back to South Africa from 1910 to 1913 before returning to England in 1914. He had enrolled at the University of Oxford. He became the curate of St Margaret's Church in North Oxford and was living at 76 Kingston Road, Oxford.

Family history

He married Muriel Alicia Worrall on 27th July 1916 at St John's Halifax. Sidney is listed as Clerk in Holy Orders and living at Chalfont Road, Oxford.
After the war Muriel worked as a nurse.

Military history

He commenced his war service on 2nd May 1918 as Chaplin to the 84th Training Reserve Battalion. During his 2 months in the army he seems to have been based at Clipstone Camp at Forest Town which was a training and transit camp. He died after a short illness and was buried locally at Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield.

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