Research about an English soldier dead in Frand WW2

[CHARTIER Gerard]

I' m researching about an English soldier dead in France during the ww2.
His name DUNK Archibald Williams Georges.
Aged 40 when he died.
He's buried in a CWGC
His remains are in a small French town called La Bosse 20km far from Le Mans-200km far from Paris-West.
May be you've noticed I'm French, so I apologise for my poor English.
If you find my bottle in the see, Thank you

[CaroleW]

Welcome to Rootschat - your English is much better than my French 

He was born in Hastings Sussex in 1902. 

Here he is on the 1911 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7BN-MV2

[CaroleW]

I suspect you already have much of the following information from www.cwgc.org

His parents were William Louis Dunk & Elizabeth Emily Terry & they married in 1895 in Sussex

Archibald married Louisa Sarah Dive born 1895 in 1931 but there doesn't appear to have been any children born to the marriage.  Louisa never remarried and died in 1980 in Sussex

Could you tell us exactly what type of information you are looking for so we don't duplicate what you may already have

[CHARTIER Gerard]

Thank you Carol W. for this precious information.
All the information I got are in my post.
You could find a picture of his rave on the site
https://www.lavoirs-en-sarthe.fr you follow with "village" and after La Bosse in the list (the place where is the grave"
We would like to get information about his death: has he been woundeed there or elswhere.
Have you a photo or more we couldd add to the webside, if you agree, of course...
Thank you for your help, Gerard

[CaroleW]

Hi Gerard

His WW2 service record is still with the Ministry of Defence.  If I am reading it correctly he was the only casualty buried at La Bosse

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68414082/archibald-william_george-dunk

Re photo.  There is a private tree on Ancestry which may have photos of him.  You could try contacting the tree owner if you have an Ancestry subscription. If not -  I will try to contact him & give him the link to this post

[CHARTIER Gerard]

That's true. There's only one British grave in this small cemetary. But we have'nt  no information why he was there.
There are other British cemetary in Sarthe . They are often close to a place where they were hospitalised. No in La Bosse.
So it's why we wanted more about this soldier who rest far from his country. May be some next of kin might be interested to know where he rests.
If you are interested have a look at the website I mentionned above for the village called "Ruaudin". There a special mention on a English plane crash in 1946.
CU

[CaroleW]

Hi

I have just sent a message to the tree owner explaining you are researching Archibald and have asked re a photograph.  Hopefully he will respond on this post but if he replies to me via Ancestry I will update the post with any info.

[CHARTIER Gerard]

Thank you for this news.
An added picture will make our site more interesting for French people.
On my side,  I'll try to interview people of La Bosse. Some eldery may remind this event in their village, or I'll might get information at the town hall.

[tonepad]

The Journal linked below has an article about the The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 2nd Bn. time in France 1940 (see A Battalion at War, pages 40-42)

The survivors of the Battalion were evacuated at Dunkirk, end of May 1940.
Presumably Corporal Dunk was in a French/German hospital before he died and then buried in July 1940 some distance from the battle area.

http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-11-Autumn-2005.pdf


Tony