Other Information:Harold was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1912, and then subsequently M.A. He then went to the London Hospital, taking the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1914. He acted as surgical clinical assistant at the London Hospital until 1st December 1914, when he took a temporary commission at the rank of lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. He entered the war in France on 19th May 1915, attached as medical officer to the 8th Bn. Rifle Brigade, and served with them for nine months, when he was wounded and invalided home. He was promoted to captain after a year’s service.
Harold returned to France three months later, and served successively with a stationery hospital in Boulogne, with the North Somerset Yeomanry, and then with the 95th Field Ambulance, with which he worked with till his death. He was described by his friends as an enthusiastic worker and one possessed of great personal charm.
Harold was the younger son of Mr Herbert Dunkerely of Bombay. He was married.
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