Second Lieutenant Douglas Gunning

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Date published: 28/07/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 01/07/1916
Age at death: 22
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Plot: Pier and Face 4 D and 5 B.
Information: Second Lieutenant Douglas Gunning, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action during the recent offensive, was a son of the late Mr. Sinclair Gunning and Mrs. Gunning, Willoughby Place, Enniskillen. He had fought as a private with the “Pals” Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, through the Dardanelles campaign. From there he was invalided home, and in December, 1915, received his commission in the Inniskillings.