Image: A page from Ronald’s military service file (Library & Archives Canada)
Regimental Number: 108198
Rank: Private
Branch: 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles; Imperial Army
Ronald was born in the Penang Straits Settlement in Malaysia on May 8, 1895. His father, William Herbert Dunkerley, was a priest in Malaysia at the time of Ronald’s birth. Ronald enlisted in Vermilion, Alberta in January of 1915. He was discharged in February of 1917, to be transferred to the Imperial Army. In 1919, Ronald filed on homesteads at SE 25-76-6-W6 and SW 30-76-5-W6; by this time, he was married to Elsie Dinah Eales. Ronald died in 1954.
- Attestation Paper
- Lives of the First World War
- Canadian Great War Project
- Unit Histories
- William Herbert Dunkerley
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