Captain Julian Silver Strickland Dunlop
1st Battalion, South Staffordshire
Regiment
24/10/1914
Mentioned in despatches
1914 Star
Third son of Andrew Dunlop, M.D., of Belgrave
House, Jersey, Channel Islands. Gazetted to a commission
in 1895; Lt. 1898; Capt. 1904; A.D.C. to Sir Frederick
Fryer, Lt. Governor of Burmah. Adjt. 4th (Spec. Res.)
Bn. S. Staffordshire Regt. One of eight brothers, five
of whom served, and three of whom fell, all within one
year. Educated at Victoria College.
Killed in action, aged 38 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Thursday 28 January 1915
Gallant Jersey Officer. Private John Jones
of Portobello has favoured the Wolverhampton Express
& Star with a description of the manner in which
Captain J S S Dunlop of the 1st South Staffords met
his death. Captain Dunlop was the son of Dr A Dunlop
of Jersey and was an Old Victorian. Private Jones was
injured by a piece of shrapnel about 7 weeks ago and
he writes "One of the bravest was our Captain and
as good as a father to all his men. I shall always remember
when he got killed. Having got through a wood alright
we started to advance across a ploughed field, but no
sooner had we got into the open than the Germans started
shelling us. I had just dropped down when a shell exploded
behind me and the force of the explosion threw a pig
about 10 yards. Our Captain was a man who knew his work
and the men would go anywhere with him. Subsequently
the order was given for a bayonet charge and we had
not got far across the ploughed field before the Captain
was killed. He was leading his men about 10 yards in
front when he was killed after which our fellows went
mad and gave the Germans something to go on with - the
place swarmed with dead after the charge. When we got
back to where the Captain lay some of our fellows had
a job to keep tears from their eyes but our charge had
not been in vain. Our fellows could not forget our good
old Captain for days after".
