Dudley Beresford Hoole Fynn · Pte. · † 1916 · Register of names Talbot House

Personal data

Name	Fynn
Initials	D.B.H.
Christian name	Dudley Beresford Hoole
Date and place of birth	Redlands, Stutterheim, Cape; 11.08.1895
Country of service	South Africa
Family	Son of West White Fynn and Elizabeth Fanny (née Dick) Fynn, of Redlands, Dohne, Cape Province, South Africa.

Service number	1387
Rank	Pte.
Regiment / Unit	3rd Regt. South African Infantry (9 Scottish Division)
Date of death	16/07/1916
Age	20
Cemetery / Memorial	London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, 9.E.51

Informtion: 'The Yeoville Lamp' - Yeoville,Transvaal, South Africa Branch. Endowed on 02.11.1927. First lit at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 03.12.1927, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of Frank Aubrey Jones, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt.-Col. Bernafay Wood, France, 11.7.1916; of Dudley Beresford Hodd (sic) Fynn, Pte., 3rd South African Infantry. France 16.7.1916; of George Pagnell Leslie, Pte., 3rd South African Infantry. France, 16.7.1916 (sic); and of R. Lester Coltman, Lt., Coldstream Guards. Cambrai, 27.11.1917.
Information 2: His body was found in 1937 at Waterlot Farm, south of Delville Wood.
Information 3: His brother, L/Cpl. Hedley Sutcliffe Fynn, 3 Regt. South African Infantry died on 20.09.1917 (Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Zillebeke), his other brother, 2nd Lt. Robert Charles Fynn, 4 Bedfordshire Regiment, died on 25.03.1918, aged 30 (buried in same cemetery as Dudley)
Information 4: Commemorated on the Roll of Honour in the chapel at St John's College, Houghton, South Africa
Information 5: His sister, Mildred Atherstone Fynn, a Nursing Sister in the Royal Red Cross, serving in France, visited his grave (17.02.1918) (picture below).