8980 Sergeant Gordon Christie Dunn, 12/3/1912-1/2/1942.

Gordon Dunn died a long way from home - in a German prisoner of war camp in Poland, where he is buried.  He was a stores clerk when he joined the New Zealand army in February, 1940, so it would have been logical to attach him to the NZ Army Service Corps. He served through the early North African campaigns, then in the ill-fated Greek campaign before being evacuated to the Greek island of Crete.

I have found no details of the life and military service of Gordon Dunn, except for the following brief paragraph in the Official History of the Supply Company of the 2NZEF:

For the first few days the Division was supplied from an existing DID (Detail Issue Depot) through a Supply Column officer, Lieutenant McIndoe. As the New Zealand forces grew the Column set up its own DID on 28 April in the disused schoolhouse at Ay Marina. Four Supply Column men, Sergeant Dunn and Drivers Brown, Fisher and Chinnery were posted to the RASC depot at Canea. Although he was a sick man, Dunn kept his little section operating so that the DID was kept fully supplied with its requirements. Of these four, only Brown escaped from the island.

From the time referred to in those few lines, I can only make an educated guess as to the rest of Gordon Dunn's days.  Held in a POW "cage" on Crete, then taken to the mainland by boat and put on a train with other prisoners heading north.  Unlike the POW life depicted in so many war movies, the lives of Dunn and the others in his camp were ones of labour for the German war effort - compulsory labour from non-officer prisoners was permitted under the Geneva Convention.  Dunn was in a camp in Poland, presumably near Krakow where he is buried, and died there of an unspecified illness.

Gore Cemetery.