William Dunnick

June 19, 1893 - August 11, 1960


Private First Class
Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division, 5th Field Artillery
Buried North Lawn Cemetery, Fort Dodge
Service Number 1043380
Enlistment May 17, 1917
Departure April 23, 1918 at Hoboken, New Jersey on the Henry R. Mallory (ID 1280)
Unit Battery F, 18th Field Artillery
Departure March 8, 1919 at Marseille, France on the Venezia
Arrival March 25, 1919 at Brooklyn, New York
Unit 18th Field Artillary, Saint Aignan Casual Company, NO. 2406 (Nebraska)
Rank Private First Class
Discharge April 5, 1919


William Dunnick was the son of Cornelius Dunnick (Civil War Veteran) and Elizabeth (Cuperus) Dunnick.
They had a daughter, Charlotte Jaunita (Dunnick) Ellis.
William's siblings Edward, John, Clara Berry, Ella Foster, Maggie Dunnick, Isaac, Harry

William was born in 1893 (he was a late child, Cornelius was 50 yrs old ).
In the 1920 Census, William was single living at home and employed as a "Waiter- Restaurant" Manning Iowa.
William played in the Manning Band.

Manning Band - June 15, 1915

William Dunnick - third from left


Information provided by Roger Markley.

Soldier Boy Writes (Manning Monitor??)

Ft.Bliss, Texas, June 2, 1917.................four of us boys here now; Roy Lawbaugh, Herbert Blair, Herbert Claussen, and myself (Wm Dunnick)................... at present I am in the 18th Field Army Band.............. practice riding a horse for mounted parade..........................rumor my company being sent to Gettysburg Penn. Ok .............."Texas is no good" ........sand storms and never rains. .................. dear old Iowa and Nebraska.
Yours truly WM. Dunnick.