HUNNYBUN, Edwin Charles Reginald

Credit: CWGC

Private

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Edwin was born 1905 in Newport to John & Louisa (nee HEATH) HUNNYBUN. He married Alice Elizabeth ORCHARD in 1934 at St Paul’s Church, Barton in Newport. They lived at 19 Nelson Road, Newport.

Edwin was captured by the Germans reported as having Died of Wounds on the 4th of June 1940 during the historic evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France in May 1940.

Edwin is buried beneath a Commission Headstone, in Section 69 Row B Grave 6 of Etaples Military Cemetery in France, bearing the Family Inscription: “DEEP IN MY HEART A MEMORY IS KEPT OF HIM I LOVED AND WILL NEVER FORGET” alongside 10,771 WWI casualties & 118 of his comrades from WWII.

Edwin is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

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CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.