Dunlop brothers
Jersey's Great War heroes:
Dunlop brothers
Julian Dunlop, eldest of the brothers to serve in the Great War
This is one of a number of articles published by the Jersey Evening Post on 10 November 2018, the day before the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. They tell the stories of a number of Jerseymen and Jerseywomen who were distinguished by their bravery during the war. Some survived to recount their own experiences, others perished in the conflict and never saw their native island again.
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Five brothers of the Dunlop family left to fight, but only two returned. Julian, Frederick and Kenneth, the three youngest sons of Dr Andrew Dunlop – a physician who worked in Jersey and was a founding member of La Société Jersiaise – were all killed in the trenches during 1914 and 1915. Two other brothers had already been killed in the Boer War. Only Walter and Alan returned home.
Six of the sons attended Victoria College at the same time and the school named one of its houses Dunlop in their honour.
South Staffordshire Regiment
Captain Julian Dunlop and 2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Dunlop both served in the South Staffordshire Regiment. Julian, the elder of the two, was aide-de-camp to the Lieut-Governor of Burma from 1899-1903, before joining the Regiment's 1st Battalion to fight in France. He was killed as he attacked a German machine-gun post on 24 October 1914. He was 39.
After leaving Victoria College, Kenneth Dunlop travelled to South America and in 1914 he was managing a copper mine in Bolivia. On the outbreak of the war he travelled from Chile to England to enrol. He became a machine-gun officer of the 4th Battalion of the South Staffordshires. On 25 September 1915 at the age of 34 he was killed in the Battle of Loos.
Captain Frederick Dunlop was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Jersey Militia and later served with the Manchester Regiment in the Boer War, Ireland and India. In 1914, aged 34, his regiment was ordered to France and only three weeks after arriving, he was shot dead by a sniper at La Bassée, close to the Belgian border.
Of the two brothers who survived, Captain Walter Dunlop served in the East Surrey Regiment in both the Boer War and the First World War, before returning to live in South Africa. Second Lieutenant Alan Dunlop served in the Boar War and then fought for the South African Forces in East Africa, and later in the Great War.
