DUNLOP HUNTERwas born 03 Nov 1898 in Plaintree House, Fairlie, to
parents William James Dunlop Hunter, a shoemaker and Elizabeth McAdam Webster (who married in Largs on 15 Mar 1889). He died, aged 76, in Edinburgh in 1975.
On 17 Oct 1930 at Marlborough House, Langside Avenue,
Glasgow, Dunlop (aged 31, sewing machine maker's
managing salesman, of 58 Cloanden Place, Kirkcaldy)
married Margaret Souter Toward (aged 30, merchant's
clerk)
In
the 1901 Census, Dunlop, aged 2, is living Oak Bank, Fairlie, with parents Wm.
JG Hunter (34, shoemaker, b. England)
and wife Eliz. Mca. Hunter (30, b. England) and siblings Geo W (5, b. Fairlie), Eliz P (4, b. Fairlie) and
Baden (10m, b. Fairlie)
In
the 1911 Census, aged 12, he is living Oakbank, Fairlie with parents Dunlop (44, bootmaker) and Elizabeth (40, married 22
years, 13 children/12 living) and siblings George (15), Elizabeth (14), Baden(10), Jessie (9), Thomas (8), Harry (6), David (5), Arthur (3), David (1)
SERVICE RECORD 25 Aug 1915 Enlisted (age 19, architects apprentice, nok father)
12
Mar 1916-23 Mar 1917 Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force, Alexandria
24
Mar 1917-12 Jul 1919 Palestine
25
Aug 1919 Demobilized
In August, 1919 he wrote to the army querying his pay,
as he believed he was entitled to 28 days extra leave and ration money "on
account of my being over three years on active service without
leave". His medal index card shows
he received the British War and Victory medals.
Extracts from the Largs &
Millport Weekly News:-
10 March 1915 Two Fairlie students are due
congratulations. Mr. R.C.R. Boyd, at the
recent examinations of the West of Scotland Agricultural College, gained a
first in Agricultural Law and a second in Agricultural Engineering, and also
the College Diploma of Agriculture; and Mr. Dunlop Hunter jnr., who is employed
by Messrs. Fryers and Penman, Architects, has for the second year in succession
carried the prize in the building construction class at Ardrossan Academy.
28 August 1915 Latest
recruits from Fairlie are William Thomson, Tarbert Cottage, who has joined the
3/6th Highland Light Infantry, and Dunlop Hunter jnr, Oakbank, who has enlisted
in the Lowland Brigade, RFA
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
