Sergeant #6587
Sergeant John “Jack” James Nunn 6587 is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery where the author of “In Flanders Fields”, Col John McCrae, is buried.
Nunn was a baker from Strathroy and attested as a private in the 1st Battalion at Valcartier Quebec on the 20th Sept 1914. He was promoted Sergeant in the field 10 Apr 1917. An abscess was discovered on his face and on the 23 Jan 1918 he died of a parotid abscess at the 2nd Australian General Hospital in Wimereux. He had survived almost the entire duration of the war.
